Windows 10: Finding lost files after Windows 10 recovery

My Windows 10 computer crashed and forced me into recovery, and now all my files seem to be lost. However, the background is still showing my slideshow, so at least SOME files must be hiding somewhere.... I have searched online forums and tried everything, but cannot find my files - documents, pictures, the lot! Any ideas?

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Lost Music, Documents, Photos after Windows 10 upgrade

I was able to find the documents lost during the Windows 10 installation and then lost them again when rebooting after an update. These files are nowhere to be found on the drive. The recovery and restore options fail. Is there a fix?

 

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Hi Francis,

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community.

I am sorry to know that you have lost data after updating Windows 10 drivers.

You have selected phone category and there is no Safe Mode in Windows 10 phones. Then how did you update drivers in Safe Mode?

If it is a PC then try System Restore and check.

Recovery options in Windows 10:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/windows-10-recovery-options

Find lost files after the update to Windows 10:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/find-lost-files-after-the-update-to-windows-10

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If the issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.

 

Did you choose to do a Recovery and Save your files? If so, then browse to C:\Users\[YourUserName] if there are two, Username folders then go to the other folder and see if everything is there. Then you can copy everything to your new user profile.

 

Unfortunately, there is only one username folder.

 

What recovery procedure did you use? There are various sorts of recovery procedures- usually it's up to the user to find a way forward and choose appropriately, where possible.

Did you use any of these?
Refresh Windows 10 Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials

Are you logged in as normal? Do you still have your usual programs installed?

I hope you have backups- we strongly advocate using disk imaging, which lets you relatively easily restore a previous working version of your PC without technical help- even if you have to buy a new disk. Disk images also act as backups from which you can extract files.