What is the extension? Is it .bak When you said you backed up your files onto disk are they the files you created like .jpg, .txt. .doc etc. If they are back ups of system files, you're not going to need them anyway, cause the system has already been recovered.

I think it's over becaue I think I did something while looking for it that rewrote it. I what Exgm said and found out that the "Default" file is the "Public" folder under "Users" and I did find the file that says it is a "Copy" of the one I was looking for, but when I opened it it is the empty database so I think I must have tried opening it again and it reverted back to its original form or something. I dunno, I didn't open it righ away but might have done so under the tuteledge of the techie at work, since we couldn't find it. Anyway, the file path was C:\Users\Public\Documents if anyone else has this problem. Not sure why that didn't show up in a search though. I searched for ANY file on the C drive that had been altered today before I did anything else. I also tried to look in Google docs but I don't really get how to search that. I don't think I used that, I think I would have realized that. But I did try what Exgm said, and if I open a sample downloaded .xls file without saving it and then opening it, it DOES just go about saving it into this default file. Don't know WHY that folder does not show up on a search though. If it had showed up with the search I would have seen it since I searched for ANY xls file. At this point I've spent almost as much time on this as I did creating the file so I have to give up. I think it is hopeless anyway Somehow I must have rewritten the file thanks to the "help" from our techie. Or else it was just long gone anyway, since it seems like a search would have turned it up. I'm very suspect of this whole search function now.

Here's the last 3 errors and 1 warning (I have tons of warnings). There is just too many errors & warnings to paste here. Not sure what you can make out of this info or even if it's the info you request, but, hopefully, it tells you something. Note: The first entry (error) is exactly when I turned on my laptop this morning, and the 2nd one is when I *think* my computer did a crash yesterday, but can't be sure. Not sure why the text I'm writing is all the way across the page when viewing - sorry for that. Thanks. Log Name: System Source: Service Control Manager Date: 5/14/2011 9:52:46 AM Event ID: 7000 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: Deb-PC Description: The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. Event Xml: " EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" /> 7000 0 2 0 0 0x80000000000000 623513 System Deb-PC Parallel port driver %%1058 Log Name: System Source: iaStor Date: 5/13/2011 5:07:16 PM Event ID: 9 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: Deb-PC Description: The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period. Event Xml: 9 2 0 0x80000000000000 623443 System Deb-PC \Device\Ide\iaStor0 0F0005000100000000000000090004C00100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Log Name: System Source: volsnap Date: 5/13/2011 5:04:16 PM Event ID: 14 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: Deb-PC Description: The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume C:. Event Xml: 14 2 0 0x80000000000000 623293 System Deb-PC \Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy4 C: C: 0000000003003000000000000E0006C00B000000560000C000000000000000000000000000000000 Log Name: System Source: disk Date: 5/13/2011 5:07:15 PM Event ID: 51 Task Category: None Level: Warning Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: Deb-PC Description: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging operation. Event Xml: 51 3 0 0x80000000000000 623442 System Deb-PC \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 030068000100000000000000330004802D010000560000C000000000000000000000000000000000AFD3050000000000FFFFFFFF01000000400000300000000000200A124C022040008000003C0000000070D0B5E867A38600000000A806A186E8D14286560000C0280013F3756F00004000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

1. Try importing the slides from the PPTX file rather than actually opening it. Click "Insert," then "Slides From Files." Browse to and select your file, then click "Insert All." This might extract the slides from the corrupted file and place them in a fresh file, though the formatting may be lost. Checking the "Keep source formatting" box might help. 2. Try opening the presentation in Word. Open Word and click "Open" in the "File" menu. Use the "Files of type" drop-down menu to select "Recover Text From Any File," then try to open your corrupted PowerPoint file. Again, most of your formatting will probably be lost, but your data will be there. 3. Check for a TMP file. These are temporary copies of recently accessed files. There may or may not be a temporary copy of the file you want, but it's worth a shot. Right-click the "Start" button, then click "Search," and run a search for "*.TMP." The search will return many files, most of them probably with incomprehensible names. Click the "Date Modified" button to sort them according to the last time they were edited and find a file that was created around the time you lost the PowerPoint file. Try to open this in PowerPoint. 4. Try opening the file in a different application that supports the PPTX format. The most prominent of these is the Impress program in the OpenOffice suite, a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. 5. Otherwise you may apply http://www.pptx.openfiletool.com/ PPTX Open File Tool