Recover Data Files, Unerase Files

Apparently I aquired many viruses, one of which made my system prompt for a restore (over and over). I did this maybe 3 times over the course of a day and the next time the prompting message came up, either it asked for OR I somehow managed to do a system RECOVERY versus RESTORE, where all of my old drivers and other things were wiped out. Luckily, I still had all of my music files and some pics that I saved on the C:/ folder (rather than in a documents folder) and some other various stuff.

After this “partial” recovery, there were still many problems. I was immediately hit with some horrific viruses where I was not able to download anything or even view any pages on the internet unless I viewed the cached pages, or else I would be redirected. Logging on was a bitch, sometimes restarting the computer 10 or 12 times before getting the desktop to fully open, in which I used OPERA instead of IE. I finally decided, to try the system recovery again that saves data files and this took care of many of my problems and I was able to run superatispyware and install avast (superantispyware detected TONS of Trojans and rootkits and adware!!!!) so all is well now EXCEPT the main problem:

I have had this comp for 5 yeears and all of the photos that are in my c:documents and settings/owner folder are somehow blocked. Access seems to be denied. I am on XP home version. The first time I recovered my comp, I renamed my computer a dif. name so when I did it the second time, I went back to the original name, thinking this would help….to no avail. I am scared to death to lose these photos of my kids and family! I should have printed!

HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS:
I open my computer, double click the c:, double click documents and settings and now I have a ton of choices. I USED TO then double click the OWNER folder and then click documents and pictured from there to access my photos, but NOW WHEN I DO THAT, I get a “windows needs to close” message and all of that closes (maybe because I downloaded the RTT tool). an hour ago when I would do this, I would get an error message saying “c:/windows/owner access is denied” message.

instead of clicking the owner folder now, I also have the choice of clicking the 2nd name folder (megan OWner, it says) and the original name folder (which are names I have chosen to name my computer ) Brittany Owner. I’m totally lost and didn’t know how to shorten my answer. Sorry for the length, but a fix would be GREATLY appreciated. BY THE WAY, there is only one account on this computer which supposedly has administrator rights, I believe.