Please help me, In a right state!

indierocker85

GunJack wrote: »

WOAH !!!! indierocker, have you looked for the windows.old file on your hard drive yet??

open Computer, C drive, and there should be a file folder there called windows.old, which will have all your stuff under Users > <your username>

LOOK FOR THIS BEFORE FAFFING AROUND WITH RECOVERY SOFTWARE!!!

Yeah, I looked, nothing in there!

indierocker85

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

many hugs, I really hope you can recover your data, try calling someone in the morning

Thank you, I hope so too

indierocker85

Backbiter wrote: »

The files should be there, but they are obviously hidden in some part of the harddrive.
It appears that the OP has not yet used the free version of RECUVA to perform a deep scan.
It appears he has not yet tried to scan his computer using the software I suggested, Glary Undelete, which found many gigabytes of data on my PC after a weird error daleted the contents of the my documents folder.

OP - try not to panic, just try these two suggestions, and report back.

Just because you found an unrecoverable version of one Excel file doesn't mean everything is lost. It could just be an old temporary version of the file that was no use to you anyway, not the one you are looking to restore.

I will try Glary now

indierocker85

[quote=[Deleted User];65541173]oh dear. I've worked in IT for 20+ years and would never even attempt something like an upgrade unless I knew I had a backup. Too late now mind. Next time, backup to google drive (cloud storage) as well.

Rules for doing IT work for customers:-

1. Take a backup.
2. Take another backup.
3. Take another backup.
4. Take your coat off.[/QUOTE]

Thankfully there are idiots like me, who make MISTAKES and keep you in a job!

NiftyDigits

If TestDisk did not have the required result, move to PhotoRec

joe134

NiftyDigits wrote: »

If TestDisk did not have the required result, move to PhotoRec

Hi Nifty, any chance of freeing up your PM, as I would like to PM something to you.cheers

indierocker85

NiftyDigits wrote: »

If TestDisk did not have the required result, move to PhotoRec

I'm giving this one a go now, estimated time to completion is 50 hours, we'll see how it goes and if it works. Thanks for the advice.