URGENT - help needed - corrupted files

doberryfirkin

I recently experimented with running Linux Ubuntu from a USB drive on my PC. All was well till I tried to upgrade. This didnt go well and now when I try to boot up my laptop in windows 7 it reports that the files in my C:\users\xxxx folders are corrupted. I have run chkdsk a couple of times. I can boot up the laptop and use it but anything I do wont be saved to a user folder. There are files there as the space is still showing as used. Is there anything I can do to recover these folders / files? My netbook doesnt have a CD drive. Thanks for any advice. D

fwor

When running Linux, does Disk Utility or GPARTED show the disk as healthy and does the filesystem check out Ok?

Have you tried a System Restore? If that fails to fix it, you may need to buy/borrow a USB CD drive and do a Repair Install.

Donnie

doberryfirkin wrote: »

I recently experimented with running Linux Ubuntu from a USB drive on my PC. All was well till I tried to upgrade. This didnt go well and now when I try to boot up my laptop in windows 7 it reports that the files in my C:\users\xxxx folders are corrupted. I have run chkdsk a couple of times. I can boot up the laptop and use it but anything I do wont be saved to a user folder. There are files there as the space is still showing as used. Is there anything I can do to recover these folders / files? My netbook doesnt have a CD drive. Thanks for any advice. D

So far we are hearing about a PC, a laptop and a Netbook. Perhaps you can clarify..

Hammyman

doberryfirkin wrote: »

Is there anything I can do to recover these folders / files?

Just restore them from the backup copies you made.

stevemcol

Hammyman wrote: »

Just restore them from the backup copies you made.

Where does the OP say that there are backups?
Or are you being deliberately obtuse?

doberryfirkin

Donnie wrote: »

So far we are hearing about a PC, a laptop and a Netbook. Perhaps you can clarify..

You're right - negligent of me. It's a Wind U230 running windows 7. There isn't a CD. The issue appears to be that I can boot up and log in as a user but the user profile folder is corrupted and therefore the desktop and various other files won't load. So it warns me that anything I do wont be saved. having said that - and the Ubuntu boot up still works - I can use ubuntu to see all the files in the user folders. One other point - when it boots up it states in a ballon at the bottom that a unregmp2 file is corrupt. Have tried chkdsk but that doesnt fix. Am thinking of backing up the various bits of data and then re-building the OS, but that seems extreme.

Hammyman

stevemcol wrote: »

Where does the OP say that there are backups?
Or are you being deliberately obtuse?

One would expect that if someone was going to try a completely different operating system and the files were of value that they'd be backed up as they would have been advised to do by world+dog - its been mentioned on this site enough. Hence restoring from backups is the quickest way of getting them back.

doberryfirkin

fwor wrote: »

Have you tried a System Restore?.

Yes but then it tells me the file path is corrupted and suggests a chk dsk.

doberryfirkin

Hammyman wrote: »

One would expect that if someone was going to try a completely different operating system and the files were of value that they'd be backed up

Yep - I had all the data backed up - it's the user profile etc in the user files that seems to be the issue. As stated above Ican see the files in the Ubuntu file system - it seems that I cannot in windows 7.

Hammyman

doberryfirkin wrote: »

I can use ubuntu to see all the files in the user folders. One other point - when it boots up it states in a ballon at the bottom that a unregmp2 file is corrupt. Have tried chkdsk but that doesnt fix. Am thinking of backing up the various bits of data and then re-building the OS, but that seems extreme.

You're sorted then. Back em up in Ubuntu to a memory stick then back into Windows, create a new user, log into that and then delete the old user account.

Unregmp2 is a Windows Media Player set up file.

JJ_Egan

I had a similar problem and ended up formatting and reinstalling .
Everything i tried failed to restore the users files .

If you want to recover files in the folder try RECUVA from http://www.piriform.com/recuva

jje