you know what, i formatted my pc about 3 weeks ago and just the other day i noticed that everything is still stored on the hard drive in a folder under the old name of my computer.
For example i go to "start", "my computer", "c:\", "documents and settings", "owner.levendi", lets say this is my computer name now, before the format it was "owner.levendi21", now this levendi21 folder is still on the pc and has everything i had saved previously, like 5gig of music which i thought i had lost due to the format. Im guessing windows xp backs everything up automatically like the system restore or something. Weird.
It worked out good though cause I have all that music back again, maybe the dude who had his pc formatted could check it out on his system.
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