Disaster!

[Jamrasta]

Can't beleive it, never done anything this stupid.

must have been a bit tired, whilst deleting another folder I accidentally deleted my 'my documents'

Cancelled it when I realised what was happening and only two folders are left, namely - my music and my photos, everything else gone, 40+ gbs worth. I turned my pc straight off and went to bed. I've had a browse of the forums is Recuva worth giving a go or is it all gone? Thankfully i've never had to attempt a recovery job.

 

[Jamrasta]

Your on windows 7?

Have you looked into the shadow files to see if anything can be recovered?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/shadow-copy.aspx

I shall look into that, thx.

Windows 7 yes, no backup /slapwrists.

I do have a few hard drives knocking about that probably have some of the data on there but none of the newer stuff. I shut the pc down straight away without thinking.

I'm not at home atm so if UKDTweak's suggestion fails i'm guessing I fire up Recuva and try to restore to one of my old hd's ?

 

[Jamrasta]

Thx for the help chaps, i've managed to recover my documents and a few other things. Lost a lot of large game patches and programme files but they are replaceable at least.

Think I may invest in an external backup drive