HP System Recovery

Not yet…I posted on that forum you linked and did what the guy said but nothing. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic479293.html

Once I got to the registry editor I changed the location of the Pictures and the Personal folders as you can see below but nothing seemed to change. Not sure I did it right though.

This really pisses me off…When running the recovery program the first thing it asked was if I wanted to backup my personal stuff which included checking off boxes of what I wanted to save like Pictures, Documents, etc. I checked them all and it took over a hour to create the disk.

Most of the documents really don’t matter and most of my pictures I still have on camera memory cards but there are a couple of spreadsheets I created and have been improving on over the years that I use for estimating and job tracking I really want back. Having my Bookmarks back would be nice too.

Thank God QuickBooks is on another computer that I never go online with.

I have to agree losing files suck. Sometimes all we can do is take it as a lesson learned.
I get a little over protective sometimes. My back up procedure:

I have 4 hard drives installed on this work station, 3 I play with and have 5 operating systems installed. On the 4th drive, is just used for backup's. I only mount that drive when doing a backup, the rest of the time it is not running just to save wear and tear.

Then I have a external drive would be 5th drive, everything on 4th drive is synced to the external drive.
1: I have the original files
2: they are backed up on another drive
3: that drive is then backed up again on another drive not on the pc.

All most need is option 3, that is adequate protection for most.
Is just sad when people lose years of family photos or other important docs that can not be replaced. Am I paranoid with my backup plan? Maybe ... but I will have my files if something goes bad.
A drive can fail at any time with no warning.