CollectorNC
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Hey guys, I need some help from the computer experts on her.
Last night I was downloading some stuff, left the room, came back in and saw all these little red X's in the taskbar at the bottom and then an ominous message about a hard disk failure.
I immediately rebooted and when my user profile came back up, i had nothing but a few items in my Documents folder, I had the same wallpaper I only recently put on there, but all files I had on Desktop and Documents were basically gone except some in the recycle bin.
I ran a System Restore which is not suppose to delete files and I thought it would put my system back to how it was on 11/20. (I've done it many times at work and on other computer running XP and figured it would be the same on Vista.)
Well, it did nothing and only managed to mess up my Norton so I had to re-download and re-install that. Now this seems to ONLY affect my USER profile and my wife's is fine. She has all her data, etc.
I ran diagnostics like chkdsk and others and they found no issues.
If 100GB of data is gone on my profile, it still shows my HDD space as 70 out of 200GB left so apparently the hard drive still has a lot of data that is apparently now invisisble...
I've never seen this before and I ran Malwarebyters (the quick scan) and Norton, the quick scan and nothing was found in the startup files...
Any ideas???
Last night I was downloading some stuff, left the room, came back in and saw all these little red X's in the taskbar at the bottom and then an ominous message about a hard disk failure.
I immediately rebooted and when my user profile came back up, i had nothing but a few items in my Documents folder, I had the same wallpaper I only recently put on there, but all files I had on Desktop and Documents were basically gone except some in the recycle bin.
I ran a System Restore which is not suppose to delete files and I thought it would put my system back to how it was on 11/20. (I've done it many times at work and on other computer running XP and figured it would be the same on Vista.)
Well, it did nothing and only managed to mess up my Norton so I had to re-download and re-install that. Now this seems to ONLY affect my USER profile and my wife's is fine. She has all her data, etc.
I ran diagnostics like chkdsk and others and they found no issues.
If 100GB of data is gone on my profile, it still shows my HDD space as 70 out of 200GB left so apparently the hard drive still has a lot of data that is apparently now invisisble...
I've never seen this before and I ran Malwarebyters (the quick scan) and Norton, the quick scan and nothing was found in the startup files...
Any ideas???