Vista deleted files from desktop

[fraustyvista]

Bought a brand new laptop 2 days ago, wife took it to work copied files
to the desktop, got home drug some more files from the external drive
to the folder on the desktop, then this morning on the first restart
all the files are gone.

Not being familiar with vista I am not exactly sure where to look, but
we did look in the desktop folder under users. We also made sure we
were not on a temp profile. Anyone have any other ideas? We have done
searches also trying to find the files, but can't

We can find the folder that contained the files but it says it is
empty, but also says the files may exist on the netork or on the hard
drive....
Message says this

"refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive
on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is
properly inserted, or that you are connected to the internet or your
network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the
information might have....."

 

[Jim]

Bought a brand new laptop 2 days ago, wife took it to work copied files
to the desktop, got home drug some more files from the external drive
to the folder on the desktop, then this morning on the first restart
all the files are gone.

Not being familiar with vista I am not exactly sure where to look, but
we did look in the desktop folder under users. We also made sure we
were not on a temp profile. Anyone have any other ideas? We have done
searches also trying to find the files, but can't

We can find the folder that contained the files but it says it is
empty, but also says the files may exist on the netork or on the hard
drive....
Message says this

"refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive
on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is
properly inserted, or that you are connected to the internet or your
network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the
information might have....."

Did she connect it to the companys "domain" ? ; which "could" make
this happen . ( No flames please , don`t use a domain ) .

 

[+Bob+]

Bought a brand new laptop 2 days ago, wife took it to work copied files
to the desktop, got home drug some more files from the external drive
to the folder on the desktop, then this morning on the first restart
all the files are gone.

Not being familiar with vista I am not exactly sure where to look, but
we did look in the desktop folder under users. We also made sure we
were not on a temp profile. Anyone have any other ideas? We have done
searches also trying to find the files, but can't

We can find the folder that contained the files but it says it is
empty, but also says the files may exist on the netork or on the hard
drive....
Message says this

"refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive
on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is
properly inserted, or that you are connected to the internet or your
network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the
information might have....."

Sounds more like you created shortcuts than you dragged actual files.

 

[+Bob+]

got home drug some more files ....then this morning on the first restart
all the files are gone.

Forgot to add: if your files are doing drugs, that can affect their
performance and whether they show up for work the next day or not.