Sudden and mysterious my folder data loss

I just opened the D drive on my laptop where I had a folder with all of my valuable data which I have been collecting for years and I was surprised to not see a single small file, on nearly 2 GB of data containing all like documents, photos, music and other files.

Initially I don't think because it's never happened before. I restarted my laptop, very expensive computer hoping it's just a little snag and data would again, but he didn't come back and I had a minor heart attack because all this data means a lot to me.

I searched the laptop together with different key words of lost files, but found only a handful of broken shortcuts.

Please help me guys... its a horrible feeling!

SS

You made a backup of your data "useful"?  If so we can help restore you.  If this is not the case, the chances of recovery are slim.  You can try an application called "recuva", but even this will restore all the data.

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