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Dell laptop lost documents

RachieRiot
RachieRiot Posts: 24 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
I have a Dell inspiron with windows Vista. I did a system restore last night (because it asked me to) and it restarted to yesterday morning, all my documents are now gone but I know they are there somewhere because i was in recycling bin and restored some stuff. It said restoring to (eg music) but when I went into music it was empty so the files must be there.

:huh:

Does anyone have any ideas on how to find them.

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  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite
    It depends on how the restoration was done. If it was a restore to factory restoration, your files are gone. If you've been able to restore some files they will be in a different folder to your current user one, even if you used the same name. Open up Windows Explorer, click on the C drive, go to the Users folder and you'll see the folders for each individual user account in there (documents, music etc). Have a hunt through those.

    Another option is restoring them from the backups you have.
  • RachieRiot
    RachieRiot Posts: 24 Forumite
    It wasn't a factory restore. When it finished it told me it was restored to 9:32 (or something) on the 14th october 2010 and I now cant seem to find my documents

    I'll try going onto windows explorer.

    Thanks
  • RachieRiot
    RachieRiot Posts: 24 Forumite
    Thank you Hammyman! I tried your suggestion and it worked! All my stuff is back!
  • LeeSouthEast
    LeeSouthEast Posts: 3,822 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Hammyman wrote: »
    Another option is restoring them from the backups you have.


    You have backups, right?

    I think the gravity of your sentence was lost... worth repeating....
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  • Prudent
    Prudent Posts: 11,686 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Many thanks Hammyman :). Rachieriot is my daughter and I have been trying to encourage her to use this site for ages. Now she can see the value of the community here :D
  • davester
    davester Posts: 4,079 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    also see the value of backing up files onto USB or DVD etc
    Survey earnings total 2009 £417, 2010 £875, 2011 £574
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