I have lost several documents and need to recover them!

[helpmeplease]

I was attempting to move around 100 documents to a disc to put them on my new
computer. Somehow I lost most of them, they are not on the disc, my documents
and my recycle bin is empty. I have done a search for them and come up with
nothing. If I didn't delete them they have to be here somewhere right? I did
a system restore to a date before I did this but that didn't help! Any
suggestions????

 

[philo]

I was attempting to move around 100 documents to a disc to put them on my new
computer. Somehow I lost most of them, they are not on the disc, my documents
and my recycle bin is empty. I have done a search for them and come up with
nothing. If I didn't delete them they have to be here somewhere right? I did
a system restore to a date before I did this but that didn't help! Any
suggestions????

In the event of data loss...
the machine *MUST* be shut down at once!

To maxminize your chance of recovery...
ideally, the drive would be slaved to another system...
data recovery software should be installed ont he other system...
and then the data can be searched for..

The problem is that in the act of searching for youlost data...
then worse still , performing a system restore...
you have more than likely destroyed the last data which would otherwise have
been recoverable

 

[Ron Badour]

More details please. What exactly did you do (what disc--another hard
drive, another partition, a CD, etc.) and how did you do it? When you did
the search, did you ensure that the search options were selected to ensure
all files were checked?

A system restore has to do with system files which these obviously were not.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I was attempting to move around 100 documents to a disc to put them
on my new computer. Somehow I lost most of them, they are not on
the disc, my documents and my recycle bin is empty. I have done a
search for them and come up with nothing. If I didn't delete them
they have to be here somewhere right? I did a system restore to a
date before I did this but that didn't help! Any suggestions????

"System" restore --> Protects "System" data - of which your files are *not*.

Please be very specific in describing what you did.
You say you moved about 100 documents to a disc...

- What type of disc and *how* did you "move" them?
Do you mean a floppy diskette? USB thumb drive? ZIP disk? CD? DVD?
External Hard Disk? Network share?

- When you say 'move' - do you mean 'select, right-click, cut and then in
the new location, right-click, paste'? Do you mean 'select, right-click and
hold button to drag to destination, release button and choose move'? Or
something else entirely?

 

[Enkidu]

I was attempting to move around 100 documents to a disc to put them
on my new computer. Somehow I lost most of them, they are not on the
disc, my documents and my recycle bin is empty. I have done a search
for them and come up with nothing. If I didn't delete them they have
to be here somewhere right? I did a system restore to a date before
I did this but that didn't help! Any suggestions????

If you move files from one disk to another, this is the equivalent of
creating a copy in the new location AND deleting the original. If
something went wrong during the move the files may not have been created
on the new disk, but deleted from the old disk.

It is likely that the documents are lost unless you can take the old
disk to a specialist recovery service - and that will likely cost you an
arm and a leg or two.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[nesredep egrob]

I was attempting to move around 100 documents to a disc to put them on my new
computer. Somehow I lost most of them, they are not on the disc, my documents
and my recycle bin is empty. I have done a search for them and come up with
nothing. If I didn't delete them they have to be here somewhere right? I did
a system restore to a date before I did this but that didn't help! Any
suggestions????

Easy really - just reach out and get the spare disk in that funny container -
you know the one you connect to the USB port. As you did a backup, all you have
to do now is to restore - simple - not to worry, it always works for me.

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