Important files Missing in Vista

[blackrose]

I must say this is my unluckiest day ever. All my project files are gone.

Heres my scenario:

1. I mistakely ended Winlogon.exe

2. I have open the folder named Downloads which is in Drive D: This folder is used by Orbit downloader, MS Office 2007 and Firefox. I use this folder to as a working directory for all my works.

3. When I ended Winlogon.exe my PC was unresposive so I had to press the power button

4. After I turn on the PC, All my files were gone, only the folder was there. I tried Tuneup Utilities 2009 to recover the deleted files but I does not show any files from that folder.
I've whole computer still I cant find them.

I need desparate help. All the project files were there. All the work I had for the last 3 months will be useless and I am running out of time.

[smalldog]

You should try Migo Digital Rescue or Recover My Files to recover your data! Remember take a snapshot your drive D before try recover!

[hellnoire]

Try using Recuva to recover them.

[blackrose]

I will try

[utkarsh30june]

Plus make sure that you DO NOT move/copy any file on that drive before using Recuva to recover them. Else all the deleted files' sectors on the drive will be overwritten making them unrecoverable.

[smalldog]

Yes Utkarsh30june say right! but again you should take a snapshot before using any software to recover your data if you mistake you can recover snapshot with original drive.

[blackrose]

No good man none of my files were found using recuva, it does not show any of my files.

[Kazemagic]

I used to got this problem as well. I tried hirens boot cd but it didnt work,ultimate boot cd didnt help me to recover the files.But the solution is use system restore at the start up. thats what i did to restore my files.hope it helped u!