What is system restore?

?Back in March 2004, got a virus which required a hard drive wipe (done at Data Doctors).

Reinstalled all software. All data was present with the exception (which I only discovered

recently) of the address book in Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 (which contained over 100 names and addresses used for Christmas cards and the like). Using the “find” function, it appears to be

present, but is partially in text, partially in “computereze” - little squares? Can I get the data

back?

This question was answered on October 30, 2004. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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You should try to restore your system

system recovery

file name: pcrestor.bat

location on the windows 98 CD in tools Sysrec

1 Click Start, click Search, and then do one of the following:

To search for a document, click Documents (Word, Excel, etc.)

To search for another file type, click Other files or folders

Click Start, and then click My Computer

Double-click the hard disk icon to display the contents of the root directory For example, C:\ or D:\

Double-click the systemroot folder, and then double-click system32

In the systemroot\system32 folder, double-click the file or folder you want to open

3 Click Start, and then click My Computer

Double-click the hard disk icon to display the contents of the root directory For example, C:\ or D:\

Double-click the Program Files folder, and then double-click the file or folder you want to open

For example, if you created a document in Microsoft Word, the file may have been saved in one of the folders associated with Microsoft Word.

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Posted by christopher of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on October 30, 2004

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