Ok, well, this is embarassing and actually quite sad from one side.
I have a Vista Basic OS on my Acer Aspire 5735. All was good until (the embarassing part) i played around a bit with my files *God knows why i did that!* must have been using something else instead of my brain

going back to the issue, i kinda deleted my shadow volume thingamajig- well it wasnt 'kinda' coz i DID delete it. And then, clever mui, wanted to fix it and i did something again and my C:/ drive ended up like 1/3 the size it was! so,, umm,,, i freaked out,

and i wanted it to be the way it was,,,, since i lost important files, i decided to do system restore, but it wouldnt run (no shadow copies-thingys and 2/3 of the files gone!) i tried all sort of things,,,, optimizing, cleaning registries, defragmemtations blah blah, nothign worked. I got tired so i thought i'd try and live with it. But since, i kinda got obssessed with cleaning my laptop,,, and when i say obssessed i mean i would run a whole system scan a couple of times a day including virus scan, antispy,defragmentations, disk clean-ups, tune-ups, driver updates etc. Few days ago, something hit me again, and i wanted to check if the system restore would work,,,,, and ,, well,, yeah,,, it flipping DELETED ALL my files!!!! and i seriously, and i mean SERIOUSLY need help! i have VERY IMPORTANT WORK on them that need to be SUBMITTED by 31st and i cannot possibly start all over again! so PLEASE!!!! HEEELP! please tell me there is a way i can get my work back

and if i could get the photos that were also deleted that would be wonderful! i'd be more than greatful! i got this laptop towards the end of december 2008, so its been around 7 months-ish, and just yesterday i started backing-up my work
