Windows 10: Lost Files after update, tried restoring, files are corrupted and now I'm mad

I accidentally let a new update through on my computer in October 2019; I wasn't paying attention. D-Day 11/06.


Computer restarts, I have majority of my downloaded .exe files (Valve's STEAM, Spotify, Google Chrome, etc.). Okay, cool. I check my files -- none, nada. I panicked, found it in C://Users under my name. Alright, fantastic, good. I had to leave for work after my panic, so I didn't have the opportunity to put it on an external drive.


Come home later, everything is gone.


Now I'm mad.


Before you assume, yes I did all the bells and whistles of trying to find my files. I still have evidence of my files being on my computer, but god knows where. I used FonePaw, but a majority of my files that were saved were either corrupted or I just didn't want to keep them. It's been about 10 days now, and I'm on the brink of having a breakdown.


Things I have done:

- Roll back the update

- Restart

- File search

- I do not have windows.old

- Fonepaw has been my last attempt and probably the most successful. But it saved a bunch of stuff I didn't want, so whatever I guess.


I used to have 110 gigs of files; now it's down to 87 gigs, and no way to properly access them.


At least my desktop background still works.

:)

 

Corrupt files when restored

Hello everyone,
The story goes like this: I accidentally deleted all my photos of a 3 month long trip I had from my 2TB backup drive *Bang Head :banghead: (!!!).
I noticed it after two weeks and the drive was in use (It also a storage for movies and such).
I had tried "GetDataBack for NTFS" and luckily all the files and folders are found in their original size and order.
However, when I try to restore them all the files appears to be corrupt.
I know chances are against me but I'm willing to try anything to restore them.
Anyone with experience in the matter is welcome to offer a solution.

Few more things that might be relevant:
the photos are JPEG but few (very important ones) are BMP .
there are also movies in AVI. The total of all files is ~20GB. and all of them come out corrupt.
I have some of the files intact and valid in a different folder, so maybe a comparison can help (Just an idea).
File system is NTFS. OS is Windows 7 64bit.
Thanks

 

Corrupted file RAR

If the archive has been created using WinRAR, why don't you try WinRAR itself? It has a built-in repair feature for repairing corrupted archive (ZIP as well as RAR). Follow the steps given below:

• Open WinRAR application in your system.
• Now click on File tab > Open or simply press Ctrl+O.
• A small window "Find Archive" will pop up. Locate the corrupt RAR archive from your system directory and select it.
• Now click Open button.
• Click Tools tab > Repair archive or simply press Alt+R.
• Again a small window "Repairing File name.rar" will pop up.
• Now click Browse to select a location to save the repaired archive.
• Check the box "Treat the corrupt archive as RAR" and click OK.
• WinRAR will start repairing of corrupt RAR archive. Once it gets completed click Close.

I hope the above steps will help you repair the corrupted RAR archive.

Thanks.

 

Corrupt .jpg files

well... no. corrupt means the data is lost. Parts of the files are missing or over-written, so you only recovered empty/damaged files. nothing you can do there.