lost files

I had an MS Word 2007 file on my system. I had it opened for a couple days, and during this time, Windows decided to FORCE a restart of my system (beautiful idea to default to this behavior, btw), and while doing so completely lost (how?) my saved copy of the aforementioned file. This file is...

I have an 8GB flash drive I got from my college. Half of it is filled. I plugged it in this morning and all my files are gone. But under My Computer, it says 4.64 of 7.50 is free. What should I do?

Yesterday i copied a large folder 51gb into my external hardisk and I used windows 7. One file name was too long and I was prompted. I selected skip file. I remember seeing the folder in my hardisk after copy. But no longer there today. the space still occupied tried using programs like pci...

Hi Guys I am really hoping that this isn't a complete lost cause and someone is going to be able to help me. I have used this forum a number of times to research issues I have had and always found the answer but this is my first post so at present I am optimistic. I was using Illustrator CS5...

I needed to clear up a problem with start up and resorted to defaulting to factory settings. I lost all photo files and other favorite dowload sites. I have attempted a few different recovery programs without success. Can these 1000 plus images be recovered?

I just installed a fresh copy of windows 7 and i left my other drive intact which has windows 7 installed on it to. The problem is i can get in to any folder on the root of the drive but it doesn't let me get in to my user folder where i kept all of my files. It says it needs permission to get...

So yes it was very stupid to not write the key down but i quick formatted my usb key with the bitlocker key on it and i cant seem to find it using recovery software. I have used recuvra, recover my files, and pc file inspector and i still cant find it....

I installed windows 7 onto my windows xp coputer. The installation went fine(I think) but when I rebooted my computer everything was gone. My documents, programs, music, photos were all missing. I dont know how to retrieve all of my lost file, in which some were very important. If i re-install...

Hi I've lost some work by opening an attachment from an e-mail, forgetting to save it locally, and then saving the document and closing. I think it's saved the updated file to a Temporary Internet File somewhere, but I can't find it. I've tracked backwards by re-opening the original file from...

When my computer with windows vista Home Premium did an (actualización) update program, my desktop changed and all my folders were not there. I moved some of them going to "search". Later I turned off the computer and turned on again. Then my old desktop were there but without the folders I...

Hello ! I don't know how this happened, I was cleaning some stuff on my computer, in my sdata partition, mwhen I noticed some blank Icons in the task bar, it was the windows explorer icon, and media player that turned blank. Afterward, I noticed that my libraries didn't expand anymore, I...