Oki this is a weird one...
My Sony VAIO NS140's dvd was screwy so I told the computer to shut down and then proceeded to take it out to look at it...anyway, apparently it wasn't properly shut down and it didn't like that.
After rebooting, Vista took me to a temporary log on and said that mine was inaccessible or something...So I rebooted, held f10 and attempted repairs...
After finishing the recovery / repairs, Windows stopped booting and I was left at the boot screen where you have a blinking underscore (where the computer checks the booting devices).
I took the laptop to a store (I'm in Nepal so it's cheap and worth it) and they found the hdd to be empty (don't ask how, I have no idea)...
So I freaked and took the HDD out and plugged it into my desktop, and after doing some odd check disk / recovery, win XP found all my files (minus about 30-40 gb). The problem is that inside my old Vista user, I can't find any of my files...so that even though the HDD says that only 64 of 250 GB are free, I can only access about 55 GB of files...namely anything in my user folder has disappeared.
So I'm guessing that the problem is one of permissions from the old inaccessible vista installation, and I was wondering if anyone can help me recover my files...
Sorry for the weird confusing mail...
Voni