[cassydale]

Hi Folks
I have had some files some files quite literally vanish into thin air from my desktop,Open Office exel type things & photo files.

I have searched high and low on here but all i can find are shortcuts that to them no longer work,I do have backups of these but these are over a week old and sods law i,ve done loads of work on them this week,Yeah i know i should back up more often.

When i do a system restore the desktop icons for these files appear briefly then vanish again.

Anyone any ideas as to whats happened or can suggest a good programme to help restore these ?

I am using Vista o/s.



MTIA

[Andy Oushudno]

Hi, this may be a stupid question but have you checked your recycle bin?
Apparantley on vista, files can sometimes fall into this of their own accord.
If that is not it, I am being forwarded a link to a vista restore programme
this is being done by a vista I.T. expert, and is being sent either today or tommorrow.
If you don't have it sorted by then I will forward it to you.
Oscar.

[cassydale]

Yeah mate,Was the first place i looked.

Still had no luck in finding any trace of my missing files

[yongkuk]

You need to get something like undelete http://www.undelete.com/undelete/home/undelete.asp or a similar recover program. But the thing you really need to do is not use the PC that has the missing files, as if they have been deleted you will wipe over them with new data. Also try this one http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

[adam_neil]

Computer help needed? Fuckin' aye!

Every day at work mate.



Adam

[Andy Oushudno]

Hi mate
As promised this is the link given by our IT mate.

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

If you click on it it tells you step by step what to do.

Let me know how you get on.

Oscar

[cassydale]

Cheers Andy,Will give it a go.

[henry moore]

its a vista thing

[cassydale]

[Andy Oushudno]

yes mate should install vista too....if you pass on your mobile number i will get our it mate to ring you direct to see if he can help.