HI,

I just lost all MY documents contents. I emptied contents of Ali"s because the same files were in the other MY Documents folder.

I have Admin, Ali's, Default & All users. Now all contents are gone. I am only user and sign on as Ali.

Please answer as soon as you can. This is the stupidest thing I have every done.
Avie

You might try a System Restore to a point prior to your problem:

start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore

Did you look in the Recycle Bin? If there, you can simply restore the My Documents folder.

Thanks everyone for help. I do not know how to do the sys restore. I thought it only worked for XP Prof not Home. The Documents folder was full of 2 years of vital data. It there not a restore software. one might suggest? I no even know if I turned it on.
Please give me instructions! Desperate as noted.
Thx Avie

Recycle Bin was clean. that would be to easy and also the data was to large.
thank you again.

Look in Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools. You should see System Restore there. Follow the prompts to pick a restore point of a time before you deleted the folder.

Originally Posted by Digerati

Look in Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools. You should see System Restore there. Follow the prompts to pick a restore point of a time before you deleted the folder.

Could not find Restore only IE explorer 7 was in that location. ugh. Thx. avie

Could not find Restore only IE explorer 7 was in that location.

Huh? You should also have Character Map, Disk Cleanup, Disk Defragmenter, Security Center, System Information and maybe a couple others. Even a non-administrator account should have those things. You have more things wrong than just a missing My Documents folder. Have you tried searching for the My Documents folder from Start > Search? Or perhaps a specific filename from that folder?

In order to start System Restore from the Task Manager or at a Run... or Command Prompt type:

%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

Hi, THANK YOU ALL. SYSTEM RECOVERY WAS NEEDED. GOT ALL FILE IN "MY DOCUMENTS" FOLDER.MY HARD DRIVE IS GOING AS DISCOVERED. NEED NEW COMPUTER ASAP. ANY IDEAS SINCE I WANT TO KEEP XP.
BEST AND MUCH APPRECIATION.