Undo HP System Recovery

Dumb& Dumber · Dec 20, 2008

Hi,

I'm feeling like an extra in the Mac/PC commercial right now. I have an HP Pavillion dv6000 running Vista that just shut done and wouldn't start yesterday. My teenage son tried to help and wnded up accidentally restoring using the HP System Backup/Restore program. Everything that was on my laptop that was current was lost since the Backup program (system restore point) was last done in 2007. He is now depressed and I've been cycling through the Kubler:Ross stages of grief ever since and I'm pretty much stuck in shock/anger/disbelief.:banghead:crybaby

I've lost a lot of valuable IP and I am so devastated I can't even begin to get my head in the space or place to even try and recreate some of the files my clients are sure to ask me about next week.

Is it even possible to restore the files and data or undo the restore point? It's been to several data recovery places (i.e., PC Inspector - didn't work, ParetoLogic, etc.).

Up until now, I used to make a living providing management consulting assistance to clients and I may have undone my livelihood in one fell swoop. It happened yesterday and I haven't been able to eat or sleep since.

Is my situation hopeless? I'm ready to throw my laptop out the window. Can you help?

hugh750 · Dec 20, 2008

Not that i know of, it looks like you'll have to reinstall vista.

DavidGP · Dec 21, 2008

Hi

By using the system backup from HP in restoring your PC to what I would imagine was its default factory setting, is that its overwritten all of your saved data, not going to preach but this is why I always always mention to users to backup important data on a regular basis to CD/DVD/USB or external Hard Drive for this very incident.

But recovery maybe possible of some data, worst thing is its likely you have started to save and install new files and software on the PC, this will overwrite the areas of the hard drive that possibly hold your previous data, so the more you use the PC the less likely you will recover anything, options are sadly not the free ones to recover data as you have already tried ones I would have suggested with no luck.

Professional data recovery agents are a route, but can be very expensive http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/ in which they take the HD apart and recover data from the platters manually.

or via maybe this http://www.diskinternals.com/ and their http://www.diskinternals.com/ntfs-recovery/ tool, or http://majorgeeks.com/GetDataBack_for_NTFS_d2773.html try the trial and see what I lists for recovery, but to actually recover you will likely have to pay.

and if the tools find data do not save what they find to the C drive of that PC, save to USB/external HD or CD/DVD as writing back to the drive your recovering data from will only overwrite the data next to be recovered.

BILLMCC66 · Dec 21, 2008

I have a HP6340 and to use system recovery (that wipes the hard drive) i need to insert the disks after selecting the feature,and as Halo said a pro data recovery seems like the only answer,but i doubt if you have gone this route you will get everything back.
If your son has used system restore you can reverse that(undo my last restore) but i am not sure if it will recover data,never the less if this is what happened the data is still on the hard drive and it's just a matter of finding a way to recover it.

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