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Documents recovery
ALL of my documents have disappeared and I cannot find them in the recycle
bin or by searching Explorer. Even the documents icon is gone. Any ideas on how to find them? -- Deane |
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Documents recovery
"DML" wrote in message ... ALL of my documents have disappeared and I cannot find them in the recycle bin or by searching Explorer. Even the documents icon is gone. Any ideas on how to find them? -- Deane That is strange. Now, you face a conundrum. You don't want to be running applications that could write over those files, if they still exist. What were you doing prior to noticing your files were gone? Has anyone had access to your computer? Have you run your security software to check for malware? Did you accidentally CUT the DOCUMENTS folder and PASTE it, instead of COPY and PASTE in the course of backing up to another hard drive, partition or flash drive or CD/DVD. Don't laugh, it has happened to a good many people. I worked on a clients system, after she complained her files were missing, for about two hours until I discovered she had done exactly that. Her files were on an external hard drive. She had CUT them instead of COPY'ed them and sent them to the external hard drive where she promptly forgot about them. |
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Documents recovery
My external drive IS my documents... I lost a drive a while back and lost EVERYTHING :cry: so I started using 2 drives keeping my documents on the 2nd drive, then one day Win ME ****ed me off and I reformatted the WRONG drive (they were both 100Gb Seagates) so from then on I started unplugging my 2nd drive. Now I use an external drive. -- 03hdfatboy MY Baby.... RAIDMAX Smilodon Dirk-Tooth case OCZ Extreme Gamer 850W PSU ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Kentsfield VIGOR GAMING CLT-M2I 92mm Thermal Electric CPU Cooler CORSAIR Dominator 4GB ATI X1950XTX + ATI X1950CF Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1800 400Gb, 320Gb SATA Seagte Barracudas i-rocks e-SATA W/500Gb Seagate 1 Sony/NEC 7191S & 1 Sony/NEC 7190A Acer AL2216WBD Logitech G15 Gamer & Mx518 Vista 64bit SP1/ XP Pro 32bit |
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Documents recovery
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======================== Got Vista problems or questions? Start here. http://www.vistax64.com/search.php "DML" wrote in message ... ALL of my documents have disappeared and I cannot find them in the recycle bin or by searching Explorer. Even the documents icon is gone. Any ideas on how to find them? -- Deane |