I have lost several documents and need to recover them!

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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????
 
"helpmeplease" <helpmeplease@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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
 
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.
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Ron Badour
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"helpmeplease" <helpmeplease@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>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????
 
helpmeplease wrote:
> 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?

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
 
helpmeplease wrote:
>
> 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

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'hilarious', it usually isn't?
 
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:09:00 -0800, helpmeplease
<helpmeplease@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>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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