Windows came back and all the files (music, photos, etc.) have disappeared.

Hello

Trying to troubleshoot my roommate.

She took his laptop (VISTA) at the library last night to do some work, when it is returned and connected, turned on, and connected that she noticed that his office and the bottom had returned to her was when she first bought the original settings.

She then open some important files from Uni she needed to work on and found them missing, as well as all his music, itunes application, his photos (shes studying abroad so that they are the priority and not his uni work... lol) and its internet settings

She didn't report to any newspaper by mistake and I asked if an update took place last night at all, but she can't remember. I noticed that the system restore restore from before the event so im guessing that the files are somewhere and that it can us hopefully be reduced.

I have not tried a restore of the system at the moment and I have read on the program 'recova' but have not tried. Thought ID ask first. It uses Vista.

Any help would be apprecieated

Thanks :)

-Tim

OK so I restarted and it connected, this time his profile loaded correctly and everything's fine, FALSE ALARM :)

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