Need Help Please Help .

well , as some of you may have seen in my sig .. my cpu fucked up .. and it erased everything .. all of my files .. and i doubt that i can do anything about it . i just wanna know has this happened to anyone before ? it seems every time i turn the computer off and turn it back on .. anything and everything i've changed has been reset .. don't know if this is a virus or what .. but i would appreciate if someone could shed some light on this .

Has happened to me before. I've got a program that will actually attempt to recover lost data on a hard disk that I can give you. You won't get everything back but you may be able to salvage some of the undamaged files if there are any.

There are many reasons as to why this could happen. Something in the motherboard could short, a power surge could screw something up, or so forth.

To be honest, unless you've reformatted your hard drive already, your files are probably still on there. You may simply have a corrupt operating system. In that case I would simply suggest downloading a small version of Linux (such as Damn Small Linux) and use that to back-up any important files that you would like to keep. From there, re-format the disk and re-install your Windows OS.

If the issue is software (which is probably is) and the only thing that is actually gone is the operating system, then most likely you received a virus. Just get your files using Linux (or if you have access to another computer, hook your hard drive up as a slave device) and then re-format the drive to re-install the OS. You could try "repairing" the OS before you attempt to re-format but in my honest opinion the Microsoft repairing system is a piece of shit.

Good luck. Hopefully you could understand what I am trying to explain as I know there is some geek jargon thrown here and there. In the event that your files were wiped from the hard drive (or if you have already reformatted), I will try to find that program that I have that will attempt to recover the files (or some of the files at least).

yeah , i found my files .. seems that a virus [ i'm guessing ] has created many temp folders and temp accounts .. so everytime that i restart my computer or turn it off then back on , it creates another folder . so i'm transferring my files into another cpu and hopefully i'll be back and up and running . thanks for the help justin .

i guess the problem is resolved, glad u found the solution soul_p