I didn't know whether I should have started a new thread on this or not. I heard you say you would give away a free book to random posters on this board. Really would like a copy of this book!. I myself have done a lot of free computer work for people. Lately it seems more and more expected of me to fix friends computers for free. Recently I fixed a computer for a friends mom. They restored their Dell with a restore disk and wondered why they couldn't get on the internet. They told me they "had a virus and got rid of it and the virus erased their pictures and documents". I don't think they even knew what they had done with the restore disk or even what it does. Anyway I spent about 6 hours straight looking through over 50,000 pictures and restoring them. Also spent about 4 hours going through old documents they wanted restored. Also cleaned the dust out of the machine, flashed bios, installed all drivers. Really have no idea if they restored the pc themselves or had dell help them or someone elese help them. I don't know how they could have used the restored disk and not realized what it actually does?.....
What did I get out of it?. I did get a thank you from the persons daughter, but I also heard that from her that they just complained because the pictures and documents weren't in EXACTLY the same place. I put the pictures in My Pictures in a folder called recoverd pictures and the documents in My Documents in a folder called recoverd documents.
At least I learned how tedious recovery can be and maybe I'll think twice about doing any type of recovery for free again.
Excuse me for any spelling errors I may have made in my story, just telling it really quick.....
Would be great if I could get a copy of that book.
