You mean I have lost all that data? What happened? How did I lose it? Did I lose it when I disabled the restore and ran the scan or when I upgraded to XP? What do you mean it is just the beginning? If I do a restore won't it bring back the data? I hope so because I am not sure I have it all backed up.
Windows System Restore is a very limited application for only system and drivers files.
It does not backup your data.
You did not lose your data if you can find it into your disk... Otherwise, documents, files, etc... could only be recovered by a backup right now...
I think neither the scanning nor the XP upgrade made you lose data... maybe a virus...
Do I just put the restore CD in and pick a date that was before I installed XP?
No, sorry, XP does not have this feature. You can't go back only by XP.
Or do I uninstall XP first.
You can't uninstall XP... you can only upgrade it (Longhorn in the future) or format the disk...
I have never done a system restore myself although the computer shop did one on this machine a few months ago.
Here we have the solution... Maybe the vendors could say 'how' they backuped the data... Some applications do it (Norton Ghost, RestoreIt, etc.).
