Re: I have lost several documents and need to recover them!



helpmeplease wrote:

I was attempting to move around 100 documents to a disc to put them
on my new computer. Somehow I lost most of them, they are not on the
disc, my documents and my recycle bin is empty. I have done a search
for them and come up with nothing. If I didn't delete them they have
to be here somewhere right? I did a system restore to a date before
I did this but that didn't help! Any suggestions????
>
If you move files from one disk to another, this is the equivalent of creating a copy in the new location AND deleting the original. If something went wrong during the move the files may not have been created on the new disk, but deleted from the old disk.

It is likely that the documents are lost unless you can take the old disk to a specialist recovery service - and that will likely cost you an arm and a leg or two.

Cheers,

Cliff

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