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Hi guys
I'm new here so forgive me if this's been covered before (I did a quick scan of related threads but didn't find anything similar).
Recently I booted up my laptop to error messages saying I had HD failure. I could still use Firefox and Word fine, but nothing else. So I conducted a system restore, and everything returned back to normal - except, almost all my files in my personal folder (Docs/Music/Pictures/Videos etc) were missing - I assumed deleted. A few random files in a couple of the folders were left, but generally nothing was visible. Weirdly, however, I can still access the files that appear to have been deleted. For example, I can open documents from my docs history in Word that don't appear in my My Docs folder, and play songs in iTunes that don't appear in My Music.
Does anyone know what on earth is going on?? I've run a few misc antivirus/spam programmes (avast, spybot) but they haven't detected anything. I'm totally confused.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Cheers
Sam
I'm new here so forgive me if this's been covered before (I did a quick scan of related threads but didn't find anything similar).
Recently I booted up my laptop to error messages saying I had HD failure. I could still use Firefox and Word fine, but nothing else. So I conducted a system restore, and everything returned back to normal - except, almost all my files in my personal folder (Docs/Music/Pictures/Videos etc) were missing - I assumed deleted. A few random files in a couple of the folders were left, but generally nothing was visible. Weirdly, however, I can still access the files that appear to have been deleted. For example, I can open documents from my docs history in Word that don't appear in my My Docs folder, and play songs in iTunes that don't appear in My Music.
Does anyone know what on earth is going on?? I've run a few misc antivirus/spam programmes (avast, spybot) but they haven't detected anything. I'm totally confused.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Cheers
Sam