Greetings all. I love tech challenges but this one has me stumped!
So basically I have a laptop that that???s running Windows Vista Basic and all my documents, favorites, pictures, etc got deleted mysteriously. My main concern is recovering the files.
Few Google hits yielded that I may have corrupt user profiles so I attempted to restore the user profile and created a new one and the same thing happened with the new user profile that I created! All the files on the desktop started to delete one by one in front of my eyes.
First thought I might have a really nasty virus so I hooked the drive up to an external enclosure and scanned it on another PC with AVG, Malware Bytes, Ad-Aware and not a single virus!
Secondly I tried to use data recovery software R-Studio, Easus Professional and was able to see that the documents were indeed deleted so I recovered them to find that they were all corrupted.
I???m just about all out of options and I???m thinking about throwing the towel in unless someone has any suggestions? I would greatly appreciate it!