You may be able to recover some of it with GetDataBack from runtime.org.

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yoda. try this for me. hold down shift and right click one of the internet icons of a picture that has changed select open with and choose windows picture viewer do you see the photo? if so let me know Athlon xp 2500+ @2.17 pc 3200 512mb ram radeon 9200se win xp home oem

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Well sorry you lost so much, I use a storage drive so I can just save important things to it, rather than losing everything when the boot drive goes hinky.

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also try the following. it may be spyware 1st step , run a virus check from all of these . Online Virus check ( free ) http://housecall.antivirus.com/ http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/misc/av.php http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/activescan-com.asp http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/home.asp?j=1&langid=ie&venid=sym&close_parent=true&plfid=23&pkj=HXJDYNBRFNJSVSTIVVB Free online Spyware detector Click on > Scan without registering http://www.pestscan.com/ Screen for Adware, Spyware, Scumware, Diallers, ’Jackers and other unsolicited commercial software . Remove Spyfiles by using these 5 programs . Make sure you use the SpyBot/SpywareBlaster/Ad-aware/Bazooka/Swat It > Online > Update button regularly . SpyBot http://beam.to/spybotsd Once you have the program installed , open SpyBot and select the "Immunize" icon on the left & Click on Immunize , in the new page . Permanently running bad download blocker for Internet Explorer . Select > Block all bad pages silently & click Install . Then check the box "lock hosts file read-only as protection against hijackers". SpyBot lock host files greyed out If it doesn't have a hosts file you cant lock it, so that tweak will be grayed out. Have SpyBot install its hosts file. http://www.zerosrealm.com/immunizing.php Note: For those running in "Basic" mode you will NOT see this. You must be running in Advanced mode! To get in advanced mode, a really easy way is to go to Start >> All Programs >> Spybot Search and Destroy >> Spybot Search and Destroy (advanced). Click it. You are now in advanced mode. Select your download site . Open Spybot Search and Destroy. After clicking the button that says "Search for Updates" you will see 5 items near the top of the window, "Search for Updates", "Download Updates", UniDo(Europe), "Show Log" and "Help". Next to UniDo(Europe) you will see a "down" arrow. Click the "down" arrow and you will see download site choices (3 in Europe, 1 in USA and 1 in Australia). SpywareBlaster http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed. Freeware Ad-aware http://www.lavasoft.de/ http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ All software offered on this page is free* to download and use and compatible with Windows 98/ME/NT40, Windows 2000 and Windows XP Home and Professional. Download sites . http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=506 Athlon xp 2500+ @2.17 pc 3200 512mb ram radeon 9200se win xp home oem

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Well Scott. That helped a lot. Thanks for the input!!

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i would agree per prevention is not very helpful when the problem has already happened. pls try post 8 ok? i need to change all that i copy and paste it from word and it makes posts out of line maybe i'll rewrite it tonight Athlon xp 2500+ @2.17 pc 3200 512mb ram radeon 9200se win xp home oem

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To simon... Yes I didn't have to ask to select a program, double clicking auto used windows picture viewer, which is what confused me. Erm, It'll take a while to go through all that help you gave (which i will lol) I'll have to do it tomorrow because i have work and must go to bed lol. but i will repost tomorrow. 1 thing i will say though, is.... it's a shame i don't trust cd's. I have lots that i have backed up, and verified (I'm boring i'll wait 1/2 hour to burn a cd to make sure it's ok, and i buy good rated branded cd's too) but many i have saved i have trouble reading.... If only i could mass store to h/d (I'd need 800 gig spread through my home network minimum lol). some might call me sad, but i have thousands of pictures of my kids, and more of video clips too, but i hate it when I can't re-live something that happened, just because of an error somewhere. I'll post my results of your help in a new thread. many thanks again to all.

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well what i meant is right click and pressing shift will let you tell windows to use the picture viewer case something is telling it not to. also try opening them trhough paint. as to your storage issues it may work out cheaper and safer for you to buy an icy box http://www.planetmicro.co.uk/product_info.asp?stockcode=M004851 you can get both sata and ide versions and they can be plugged into either usb or firewire ports. basically its external housing for an internal drive effectively making it an internal drive. with 200gb drives costing £60 now you could easily use these in the box as stores and yes you can take a drive out the box and put another one in. Athlon xp 2500+ @2.17 pc 3200 512mb ram radeon 9200se win xp home oem

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