PLEASE HELP - i want my pics & music back

Hello, I suggest you'll read this

When you do a system recovery, it cleans everything, files pictures etc. off of your computer. When you are finished doing a system recovery, there is not anything on your computer to recover. I have done a system recovery two times on my computer, and that's the reason you do it. It should look just like the day you bought it, when you are finished. You have to reinstall your antivirus, spyware programs, and all of the programs that you want to use. Make sure you run windows updates (express mode) and you will have to update your other programs that you put back on your computer. If you do a system restore, then you might have been able to save most of your programs. A system restore takes you back to a date, when your computer was running good. Sorry, I know that's not what you wanted to hear. Good Luck in the future!!

First stop would be be norton undelete or a similar util. Expect your music & pics to be at least occasionally corrupted.

to the best of my knowledge, SYSTEM RECOVERY does not delete anything on the H/d.If you know the name of just one of the pictures(did you saved the pix[picture] and did you give it a name?) GOTO::left bottom of screen; START>search.......do a search of the name or the type [*.jpg, *.bmp, *.img, etc,etc ] of picture it is. If you find ONE, the rest of the pixs are in the same area or folder.