Lost personal folders in Vista

[pps1]

I am using Windows Vista Home edition.
I lost my personal datas [file & folder] which were stored in the system Drive (C but the datas in the other drive (D are intact suddenly. When I tried to serach one particular file using search files/folder option, it came up in the search and I tried to save it with the same name then it said file already exists. I am not sure what's wrong with my laptop.
I'll appreciate your help.

Regards,
Pps

 

[richc46]

Welcome
Download and try to find them with shadow explorer
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If that does not work
Download and try to find the files with recuva
Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File and Disk Recovery - Free Download

 

[Brink]

Hello Pps, and welcome to Vista Forums.

In addition, double check using OPTION TWO in the tutorial below to make sure that your user folders are set with their default locations.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/148461-personal-user-folder-restore-missing-folder.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[richc46]

Nice Shawn,
You have helped two. The OP, and I have saved another tut in my favorites.