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So a friend of mine has a relatively old laptop, running Vista and modest hard ware. Recently, he told me he's been seeing spybot pop up a message and each time he'd hit deny. What those messages were, I don't know, but he went on to tell me the other day his laptop, after denying a message (whether directly after or shortly after), his laptop rebooted and came back up with everything gone, restored to factory settings. He didn't hit a restore button or anything, apparently this all happened outside of his control.
However, he explained to me that when he went to make a folder on his desktop with the same name as he did pre-wipe, it said the folder already existed (yet clearly no longer did). This leads me to think all of this files and what not are all still on there, windows is just being a pain. Anyone have any ideas on what just happened and how to fix it? There's a lot of data on his hard drive that's pretty important (school and work related etc), and he came to me for help and I'd hate to have to tell him sorry there's nothing I can do (so I came here!
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However, he explained to me that when he went to make a folder on his desktop with the same name as he did pre-wipe, it said the folder already existed (yet clearly no longer did). This leads me to think all of this files and what not are all still on there, windows is just being a pain. Anyone have any ideas on what just happened and how to fix it? There's a lot of data on his hard drive that's pretty important (school and work related etc), and he came to me for help and I'd hate to have to tell him sorry there's nothing I can do (so I came here!
)