Installed on Wednesday on 2 computers without problem. Then the 3d one - my wife’s started going in a loop. Instead of getting me, she hit the restore system and restored it to the original condition. Wiped out about 2 years worth of work that she did. Any ideas how to retrieve My Documents and the other files and programs that disappeared?
Other than restore from backup? Nope. You could try one of those data recovery specialists but it might be pretty expensive for no guarantee.
In the future zip them up and copy to each other's hard drive every so often. That's the easy way out. Of course you could get flash drives, ext. hard drives, etc.
if you used ms system restore they are still there. right click on the start button select properities then select classic start menu. the mycomputer and my documents icons will show up
What your wife did was probably a manufacturer’s reset to original factory drive image (completely overwrites the drive with an image of the original from a hidden partition).
If that’s what happened, the data is gone (except for a professional recovery service). Here’s a link to the only one that I know has been around for a long time, is professional, & should be able to reconstruct your drive. It will cost several hundred $ or more. Only you can determine if it’s worthwhile.
Good Luck
RT
One more thing - if you want to search for other recovery services, be sure to get recommendations/references from people you trust on those you find. I’m the suspicious kind and I think an ad on google, etc, would be an easy way to pull in victims for low-life hackers with evil intentions.
Just saying - watch your back.