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piper50 · 08-21-2006, 03:59 AM

Hi ... I am certainly not wishing you ill, but can commiserate. I lost a large amount of data (about 100 gig), did recover some of it, tried the renaming thing, and it dropped it's bundle again. I had to re-install Windows to get my system running again.

I understand what you are saying about the scrolling! It was like watching the last 3 years of my life flash before my eyes!

I formatted the offending drive (a WD 250 gig) and thought I would start again. Had the drive tested and it's fine. It seems 30,000 files is the magic number, as when I got to there, restoring files from DVDs, it happened again! I am now also getting a message saying my virtual memory is low and I need to increase my virtual memory paging file. I am not very technical, so am not sure where to go from here. Win XP?

Good luck with yours. I will watch the posts and see if you get an answer.

08-21-2006, 03:59 AM	#2 (permalink)
piper50 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: East Coast of Aus Posts: 1	Data loss with Win2K Pro Hi ... I am certainly not wishing you ill, but can commiserate. I lost a large amount of data (about 100 gig), did recover some of it, tried the renaming thing, and it dropped it's bundle again. I had to re-install Windows to get my system running again. I understand what you are saying about the scrolling! It was like watching the last 3 years of my life flash before my eyes! I formatted the offending drive (a WD 250 gig) and thought I would start again. Had the drive tested and it's fine. It seems 30,000 files is the magic number, as when I got to there, restoring files from DVDs, it happened again! I am now also getting a message saying my virtual memory is low and I need to increase my virtual memory paging file. I am not very technical, so am not sure where to go from here. Win XP? Good luck with yours. I will watch the posts and see if you get an answer.