PLEASE HELP!!!!! I Think I May Have Lost Everything!

Lets see what happens after its completed .

You're welcome .

You won't able to run programs from the external drive . You would have to reinstall the programs that didn't come with your laptop back into your PC . To get the files back from the external hard drive to the laptop are they just regular files one specific file ?

VistaKing said:

You won't able to run programs from the external drive . You would have to reinstall the programs that didn't come with your laptop back into your PC . To get the files back from the external hard drive to the laptop are they just regular files one specific file ?

Okay, thanks... And to be totally honest, I'm not exactly sure. When I open the folder containing my work program, it has the application that starts the program, and then a TON of other folders and files in it as well... there are .tlx, .dll, .chw, .sgxml, .sgmsg, .clx, .utlx, .dat, and others. I have a feeling that some of these extensions are specific to my work program. All the other folders have their own files inside them, too... I've never seen any of this before because when I installed my program initially, I basically just got the icon on my desktop and never saw a folder with any of this stuff in it. Even if I re-download the program to my computer, I don't know how I would integrate my old files back into it from this. I don't know what's what at all.

UPDATE:

I reinstalled my work program and I managed to copy every file from the hard drive back over onto my laptop. Everything seemed perfect until I actually tried to open one of my jobs... Nothing was there. It literally recreated every folder and case I've ever made, but all the content, the actual jobs, aren't there. I don't know where they'd be, and I'm pretty sure they're just gone forever. Don't know that there's anything I can do about that.

Next thing I tried to do was get back all of my old Excel, MS Word, and WordPerfect files. None of those programs exist on my laptop anymore, but I was hoping that they would still be on my hard drive. I thought I could copy the contents of the Program Files folder from my hard drive onto my laptop, but almost immediately, it told me I did not have permission to enter something like 848 folders, and they could not be accessed for copying. I'm not really sure what to do now. Is there any way I can get back my old Excel, MS Word, an WordPerfect files, or any of the other folders/their contents that I had on my desktop before this catastrophe hit??

(Sorry. I tried to delete these images since I'm past that point now, but they're still there.)

To be able to view excel and word files you would need to reinstall Office again . To be able to use to use WordPerfect you would need to reinstall it