Most but not all folders disappeared from My Documents

[Ace911]

I'm was running Windows XP and MS Word and went to save a document and
most but not all my folders in My Documents had disappeared. I've
checked that Hidden Files and Folders view is checked.

Any suggestions???

 

[Bob I]

Are you using a "new" profile because the "old one crashed"? Take a look
in Documents and Setting on C:\ and see if there are some oddly named
profiles.

 

[Ace911]

Are you using a "new" profile because the "old one crashed"? Take a look
in Documents and Setting on C:\ and see if there are some oddly named
profiles.

Nope, I was just running MS Word (before that the folders were there).

 

[Bob I]

Do the folders appear if you navigate there in Windows Explorer?

 

[Ace911]

Do the folders appear if you navigate there in Windows Explorer?

Nope, not in Windows Explorer nor running CMD and trying that way.

 

[Elmo]

Nope, not in Windows Explorer nor running CMD and trying that way.

A couple of things to try:

- Restart the system and see if the folders reappear.

- See if they were sent to the Recycle Bin.

- Download and run Restoration or another Undelete program. The more
you use the hd with the deleted files, the more data you overwrite, so
you should download the program to a flash drive, or floppy.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
http://www.recuva.com/

 

[Ace911]

Joe,

Thank you for the advice; I tried restarting virtually as the first
item. I did find some of the files and folders in the Recycle Bin but
not all (approx 13,000 files went missing). However being around
computers for longer than I care to admit, I was grateful for the fact
that I have an auto sync program backing up all my files to my
server. I restored the missing files from the server (only took 8
hours over a 100Mbps wired connection!).

I'll download those programs, just in case it happens again.

Thank you and everybody else for the replies,

William

 

[dilukatalagala]

There is one thing you can do. Go to command prompt and navigate to my
documents and type
attrib -s -h *.* and enter, this should work
if u are unable to understand mail me on (e-mail address removed)
hope this helps