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Silly Burrito:

RTS, if you haven't already (and assuming that you have or can find a copy of XP), try booting into something like UBCD4Win (http://www.ubcd4win.com/). Burn the ISO on another computer, then stick that CD into your system with a large USB drive or external drive connected upon bootup. Handy Recovery should be on the ISO (along with other various recovery tools, just in case). If you don't see the files immediately using the File Explorer (I use the A43 program, but the plain Windows Explorer works too), then you can try using Handy Recovery.

If you don't have any copy of XP, you can either try downloading UBCD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) and using some tools there, or Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net/) and seeing if you can find the files and save them to the external drive. I like UBCD4Win as it has a LOT of tools, including virus scanners. Also, if you do get UBCD4Win up and running, you may want to run a chkdsk c: /r or a fixboot c: at a command prompt. Possibly some files are corrupted and a chkdsk may help, along with running Avira or one of the other built in virus scanners.

By the way, I fix PCs on the side, and I see more problems with eMachines and Gateways than any other brand. This was true when they were seperate companies, and it's still true now that they're all made by Acer, I believe. Every company makes lemons, but in my own personal experience, I see more motherboard and other part failures with eMachines and Gateways. Viruses/Spyware on the other hand, show up on any PC brand. They're not picky. :)

Hope this helps!

DillonFoulds:

Personally, I use a combination of "Restoration", "Recover4all", "Recuva", and "Active@ Partition Recovery" (In order of severity). It depends if you just pulled a bonehead move and delete a file, or ended up with a virus that wipes your whole hard drive partition (MBR, File tables, etc.).

Typically one of those 4 will work, but it could take you a couple days while you work on it, especially with partition work. Be prepared! Also, if you delete something, be sure to stop using that hard drive immediately to prevent overwriting it.

romshark:

I've been running an E-Machines (ET1161-07) since May. Of course, the first thing I did was format the drive and put on a copy of XP (legal, purchased years ago for a computer no longer in service). Haven't had any problems.

I do second the UBCD4WIN. That's helped me with a bunch of tasks. I really should make an updated version...

One thing that puzzles me: You're doing video editing on an arcade cabinet?

Gatt:


--- Quote from: Silly Burrito on December 30, 2009, 07:07:35 am ---By the way, I fix PCs on the side, and I see more problems with eMachines and Gateways than any other brand. This was true when they were seperate companies, and it's still true now that they're all made by Acer, I believe. Every company makes lemons, but in my own personal experience, I see more motherboard and other part failures with eMachines and Gateways. Viruses/Spyware on the other hand, show up on any PC brand. They're not picky. :)

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I think E-machines hold a special place in the lemons catagory.  A friend of mine owned one,  it would randomly turn itself on.  I didn't believe him until I found others reporting the same thing.  Building lemons is one thing,  building a lemon so bad that it just randomly turns itself on,  that's in a special class of terrible.

smalltownguy:


--- Quote from: Gatt on December 31, 2009, 04:38:42 am ---
--- Quote from: Silly Burrito on December 30, 2009, 07:07:35 am ---By the way, I fix PCs on the side, and I see more problems with eMachines and Gateways than any other brand. This was true when they were seperate companies, and it's still true now that they're all made by Acer, I believe. Every company makes lemons, but in my own personal experience, I see more motherboard and other part failures with eMachines and Gateways. Viruses/Spyware on the other hand, show up on any PC brand. They're not picky. :)

--- End quote ---

I think E-machines hold a special place in the lemons catagory.  A friend of mine owned one,  it would randomly turn itself on.  I didn't believe him until I found others reporting the same thing.  Building lemons is one thing,  building a lemon so bad that it just randomly turns itself on,  that's in a special class of terrible.

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When I took over IT at my job, I surveyed the boneyard upstairs. Guess what I found? 12 desktop computers, and TEN of them were E-machines. Nearly all of them had fried power supplies, and several of those took the mobo with it when the PS died. I was able to 'frankenputer' two good setups out of the wreckage. One of them is still deployed in the field at work, the other one is my MAME rig  ;D



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