My Windows 10 computer crashed and forced me into recovery, and now all my files seem to be lost. However, the background is still showing my slideshow, so at least SOME files must be hiding somewhere.... I have searched online forums and tried everything, but cannot find my files - documents, pictures, the lot! Any ideas?
Finding lost files after Windows 10 recovery
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New 20 Aug 2017 #1
Finding lost files after Windows 10 recovery
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New 20 Aug 2017 #2
Did you choose to do a Recovery and Save your files? If so, then browse to C:\Users\[YourUserName] if there are two, Username folders then go to the other folder and see if everything is there. Then you can copy everything to your new user profile.
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New 21 Aug 2017 #3
Unfortunately, there is only one username folder.spunk said:
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New 21 Aug 2017 #4
What recovery procedure did you use? There are various sorts of recovery procedures- usually it's up to the user to find a way forward and choose appropriately, where possible.
Did you use any of these?
Refresh Windows 10 Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials
Are you logged in as normal? Do you still have your usual programs installed?
I hope you have backups- we strongly advocate using disk imaging, which lets you relatively easily restore a previous working version of your PC without technical help- even if you have to buy a new disk. Disk images also act as backups from which you can extract files.
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