Please tell me I can find my files... PLEASE...

So I went to bed last night and Microsoft sent an update. I woke this morning, logged in and my desktop appeared to have been reset. Upon further investigation, I find that all my files are GONE... music, photos, outlook .pst..... everything.... it's like Vista has been recently loaded onto my computer... gone gone gone... everything. I did a search for windows.old, nothing. Can I roll back the update? Will that do anything? PLEASE HELP!

Thank you so much in advance!



Susan

Before updates are done, Vista writes a restore point. Roll the system back to that restore point.

Which Update are you talking about

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"mrskrabitz" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Please tell me I can find my files... PLEASE...
>
> So I went to bed last night and Microsoft sent an update. I woke this
> morning, logged in and my desktop appeared to have been reset. Upon
> further investigation, I find that all my files are GONE... music,
> photos, outlook .pst..... everything.... it's like Vista has been
> recently loaded onto my computer... gone gone gone... everything. I did
> a search for windows.old, nothing. Can I roll back the update? Will that
> do anything? PLEASE HELP!
>
> Thank you so much in advance!
>
> Susan
>
>
> --
> mrskrabitz

unfortuntatly, I have never had system restore work successfullly... I have in the past gone to run system restore (in xp and vista) selected a date, and run it only to say it cannot do that. So I don't trust system restore.

I don't know what happened, but when I went to the C drive and checked under user, my files and documents were all there. I have since backed up everything on my external hard drive... such fun!!!

Thank you so much for the help!

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:34:55 -0600, mrskrabitz
<guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote:

>
>unfortuntatly, I have never had system restore work successfullly... I
>have in the past gone to run system restore (in xp and vista) selected a
>date, and run it only to say it cannot do that. So I don't trust system
>restore.
>
>I don't know what happened, but when I went to the C drive and checked
>under user, my files and documents were all there. I have since backed
>up everything on my external hard drive... such fun!!!
>
>Thank you so much for the help!

One Touch external hard drives are great for backups as are programs
like Acronis. Manually restoring is a ROYAL PAIN IN THE B??T!!

:Peter,

The updates that installed that night are as follows:

UPDATE FOR WINDOWS VISTA (KB973687)
UPDATE FOR WINDOWS VISTA (KB976098)
UPDATE FOR WINDOWS VISTA (KB976470)
UPDATE FOR MICROSOFT XML CORE SERVICES 4.0 SERVICE PACK 2 (KB973688)

I started the install before going to bed and when I woke the next morning and logged on, it was as if I had just load Vista over xp, bad bad bad... and very scary...

Happy Holidays!
Susan

Originally Posted by Peter Foldes

Which Update are you talking about

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"mrskrabitz" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Please tell me I can find my files... PLEASE...
>
> So I went to bed last night and Microsoft sent an update. I woke this
> morning, logged in and my desktop appeared to have been reset. Upon
> further investigation, I find that all my files are GONE... music,
> photos, outlook .pst..... everything.... it's like Vista has been
> recently loaded onto my computer... gone gone gone... everything. I did
> a search for windows.old, nothing. Can I roll back the update? Will that
> do anything? PLEASE HELP!
>
> Thank you so much in advance!
>
> Susan
>
>
> --
> mrskrabitz

Perhaps, but I am so glad to have all my files... SO GLAD!!!

Originally Posted by f/fgeorge

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:34:55 -0600, mrskrabitz
<guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote:

>
>unfortuntatly, I have never had system restore work successfullly... I
>have in the past gone to run system restore (in xp and vista) selected a
>date, and run it only to say it cannot do that. So I don't trust system
>restore.
>
>I don't know what happened, but when I went to the C drive and checked
>under user, my files and documents were all there. I have since backed
>up everything on my external hard drive... such fun!!!
>
>Thank you so much for the help!

One Touch external hard drives are great for backups as are programs
like Acronis. Manually restoring is a ROYAL PAIN IN THE B??T!!

A third part repair tool called Advanced Outlook Repair may be
helpful. It can recover your outlook pst. You can download a free demo
version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe . I think it is a
useful repair tool for you. It is easy to recover your PST file by
using its wizard. It is a powerful tool to recover messages, folders
and other objects from corrupt or damaged Microsoft Outlook PST
files.

Detailed information about Advanced Outlook Repair can be found at
http://www.datanumen.com/aor/

Wangdong