Automatic Update deleted all my files!

Anonymous
2010-04-29T14:22:13+00:00

Last night my laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit on a Dell Inspirion Laptop performed an automatic update. After rebooting, all my personal files including two 15 page papers I was working on for my degree were deleted.

All my pictures, word docs, and personal files are gone. Only the shell of My Documents folder, including the sub folders I created, is left.

I ran the System Restore going back to a two day old restore point, but non of my personal files were recovered.

I searced the internet w/ " Windows automatic updates deleted/erased all my files" and came up w/ several threads reporting this automatic update issue, but no solutions.

 Similar questions have been asked in other parts of this forum w/out satisfactory answers:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistaapps/thread/dd1beef0-4cae-4220-87fd-6556fd1c4d7d

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I even displayed all hidden folders and searched the entire hard drive w/ *.doc and did not get a single file back!

I need help!

My papers are due in a week and all my course work is gone.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-03-05T18:58:09+00:00

    The same thing happened to my moms computer and all I did was go to:

    Files 

    Network 

    Click on her account

    and everything was there. 

    Hope it works for you!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-01T00:54:51+00:00

    OK...

    .

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-31T09:04:13+00:00

    But what I said works!

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-30T21:15:25+00:00

    This thread has nothing to do with Windows 10.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-01-30T12:56:28+00:00

    To fix this problem:

    go onto file explorer

    this pc

    local disk

    users

    your user name

    and then your documets will be there

    Thanks to my dad!!

    First of all there and checked. It makes no sense, there is no necessary files

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