📎 AI Summary:
The thread discusses an incident where the user’s files disappeared and a temporary user account appeared, likely due to Windows profile corruption. An experienced contributor suggests that disk or antivirus issues could be causing this and recommends testing the hard drive with Seagate SeaTools. The original poster acknowledges the advice and thanks the user, with the overall tone being informative and helpful.
Cardinal System

Cardinal System

Honorable Member
Joined
Jan 24, 2016
Messages
87
Thread Author #1
I logged on to my computer this morning, but all my files were gone and a new user was added to the "C:/Users" directory called "TEMP". I logged off then logged back on, and everything was back to normal.

How did this happen, and how can I prevent it in the future?
 

Solution
bochane
Your Windows profile ( C:\Users\you) was corrupt or could not be opened within a certain time.
Maybe your Anti Virus was too busy, maybe a disk read/write failure has occured.

I would certainly test the harddisk. You can download and install the Seatools for Windows from www.seagate.com and run the non-destructive test and see what shows up.

Hope this helps
Sort by date Sort by votes
bochane

bochane

Essential Member
Joined
Oct 18, 2012
Messages
1,403
#2
Your Windows profile ( C:\Users\you) was corrupt or could not be opened within a certain time.
Maybe your Anti Virus was too busy, maybe a disk read/write failure has occured.

I would certainly test the harddisk. You can download and install the Seatools for Windows from www.seagate.com and run the non-destructive test and see what shows up.

Hope this helps
 

Upvote 1 Downvote
Solution
Cardinal System

Cardinal System

Honorable Member
Joined
Jan 24, 2016
Messages
87
Thread Author #3
bochane said:
Your Windows profile ( C:\Users\you) was corrupt or could not be opened within a certain time.
Maybe your Anti Virus was too busy, maybe a disk read/write failure has occured.

I would certainly test the harddisk. You can download and install the Seatools for Windows from www.seagate.com and run the non-destructive test and see what shows up.

Hope this helps
Click to expand...
Ok, thanks!
 

Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.