Solved HELP!!! User folders are empty!!!!

Hello,

so today i start my computer, and yesterday night i shuted it down holding the start botton long enough. So today i start it and that black screen saying start windows with safe mode and other options shows up, i cant really remember what i selected cause i was pretty sleepy. But the thing is that when i look back to my desktop my background was gone, all the preferences i made were gone (sidebar shows up, top bar shows up). Also some go check my documents folder where i have really important files, and it says its empty and that was created today (... ?) . I freak out thinking i lost all my files. So i go check my disk space and its the same as always so i calm down and think well maybe its not all gone but i just cant access it. I already tried system restore, show hidden folders, nothing worked.

Please help me!! my programs are still there but i cant access my user folders, it says they are empty... my background is gone and it looks like i just bought the computer cause i get hp background and folders say they were created today.

Hope someone can help me, and someone can understand what im talking about lol.

help!!!

Here some screenshots for you guys to get the picture. Also my browsing history its gone.


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My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
Thank you, that worked :) .

But everytime i want to access this documents will i have to do it through this program? Is there no way to get everything back to normal??

Also any idea on why this happened to my computer??

Thank you so much for the help, atleast now im calmed down cause i have access to my stuff. thanks
 

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When you shut the computer down incorrectly, you caused corruption.
My suggestion, if you can, back up your stuff on an external hard drive and then, if you want, put it back on your internal drive.
You could, also, try a system restore.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html
and
before you have the problem again, back up all your stuff in the future.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
Okay!! it seems that when i system restored earlier today i didnt restored back enough. Now i did it correctly and everything is back to normal :D

ty , everything is back even my background :)

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Glad that it all worked out, good luck.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS420
    Memory
    6 gig
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD3650 256 MB
    Sound Card
    Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SP2009W 20 inch Flat Panel w Webcam
    Hard Drives
    640 gb
    Cooling
    Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell USB
    Mouse
    Dell USB 4 button optical
    Other Info
    DSL provided by ATT
In the future it is best to shut down from the start menu rather than by holding down the power button. As you experienced there can be problems caused by doing that.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 8.1 Industry Pro x64
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavillion Elite HPE-250f
    CPU
    Intel i7 860 Quad core 2.8 ghz
    Memory
    8 gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 5770 1 gb ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Alienware 25 AW2521HF
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 &1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    1 TB x2
    Other Info
    https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavilion-elite-hpe-250f/
  • Operating System
    Windows 2012 R2 Data center/Linux Mint
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Poweredge T140
    CPU
    i3 9100 3.6GHz, 8M cache, 4C/4T
    Memory
    8GB 2666MT/s DDR4 ECC UDIMM
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    1 TB & 360 GB x2
    Other Info
    https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetailstxn/poweredge-t140?~ck=bt
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