I wasn't exactly at my pc when this happened so I'm just gonna give secondhand info from my brother, who was using the pc at the time.

He said he was just checking his emails, when all of the sudden the screen started flashing and warning him about an invalid spot in the registry, and some ntfs file error. He then proceeded to restart to see if it helped, but then xp said he couldn't log on to the normal user account that we use and it made a temporary one for him, and now that user account is gone.


So basically I have access to most of my program files, but everything that was on the desktop I can't get to, like my music/movie folders, etc.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I located all my stuff, but any idea on what caused this so I don't do it again would be cool