Let see if someone else can answer this. Looks like Ken abandoned

[Guest]

I had to do a system recovery on a Compq and now I missing
around 90Gb on my hard drive. Does anyone know how to fix with out doing a
destructive system recovery? I would had to have to back up everthing on my
hard drive and no DVD burner.
I just ran the system recover because I could not install XP SP2. System was
corrupted but it still ran. The drive is 160 Gb and around 67 (or so) was
used before the recover (round 5Gb is used for the Compaq partitions). I'm
seeing this in the system directory and I also used command prompt to see if
I could find other partitions, but there are none. Now, there were two user
profiles made, I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

If you did a Compaq system recovery, was it not destructive? How much
personal data could be on the machine?

 

[Guest]

Compaq gave me the option to do a non-destructive install and it keep my
data. But I thinking that it may have duplicated the data, but don't know
where it would be stored. And I would say I would have around 40 to 50 Gb of
data.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Download BootIt NG from www.bootitng.com. Run the EXE to make a bootable
floppy or CD installation disk. Boot to that, Cancel the installation, click
on Partition Work, and see what it says is on your disk.

 

[Guest]

I'm on it. I will post in a couple days what I find. This is actually my
father's computer.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

If that doesn't show some hidden partition, then there is probably either a
large amount of data on the rebuilt partition that you'll have to find, or
the file system is screwed up. Have you run CHKDSK?

 

[Guest]

No, I have not ran CHKDSK yet. I'll be doing that next. But I think your
right, I think there is a large file hiden some where. I have read a few
forms and it seem that it may be that the system restore is make restore
points and very large ones at that.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Good luck. I don't know what Compaq's non-destructive System Restore does,
or if it makes a backup.