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    Windows 10 lost everything.. TWICE! How can I get it all back?

    Hey all, This thread was a while back, but I wanted to get this out there. A lot of you found ways to get your backups restored. Stellar Windows Data recovery software and Piriform Recuva seemed to be ways that you've gotten your files back. I hope it's worked for you! I have not tried...
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    Windows 10 lost everything.. TWICE! How can I get it all back?

    Nounaga, I'm so sorry to hear about this, but I am slightly comforted that this didn't only happen to me. Like you said, even my desktop changed, and it moved everything that was still saved into random folders! And when I plugged in my external hard drive to copy my files over (again)...
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    Windows 10 lost everything.. TWICE! How can I get it all back?

    Nope not making crap up. Like I said, it didn't delete anything after the first upgrade, it just moved everything to a different folder - not Windows.old... I think it was in a buried User file that someone had mentioned in a forum, otherwise I would never have found it. But I restored all of...
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    Windows 10 lost everything.. TWICE! How can I get it all back?

    Re: Windows 10 lost everything... TWICE! Thank you for your comment. As I said, the first Windows 10 upgrade (upgraded through windows with the reserved upgrade from Microsoft) worked fabulously. Files were kept in an old storage folder (not in Windows.old - that had every folder with no...
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    Windows 10 lost everything.. TWICE! How can I get it all back?

    Windows 10 lost everything... TWICE! My computer is 5 years old. I have withheld getting a new one because, apparently, we were all spoiled with Windows 7 and had no idea that the newest version of windows was going to be so terrible. Windows 8 sucked, but I was really hopeful for 10. So...