Windows 10: How do you restore files after my computer completely restarted and deleted everything?

So I fell asleep while my computer was still on and when i tried to open it, it completly restarted and deleted EVERYTHING. Once i logged back into my account, all of my existing files, apps, folders, anything were deleted. I tried restoring and backup my files on One Drive but nothing showed up in my file explorer nor the trash bin. I've also tried Windows Backup but my missing files were still not found. I searched up a few questions on microsoft community about not finding restored files and the tips were to enable "show hidden files, drives and folders" which also didn't work. Pls help :

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Deleted file restore software.

Shute I never thought about system restore. But its been more than a week now, don't know if I can go back that far. But even then will it put back user files?

 

Deleted file restore software.

I cant remember if it recovers old files OR leaves new files on the computer even after you do the restore. I havent used it in a while.

 

Deleted file restore software.

Oh.

So your running the backup software from the server and not the computer.

Yep I see whats happened. Just for the future (althought I am sure you wont make the same mistake again) make sure you select and option that says "if it cant find the file, DONT delete". If it doesnt have that option...switch to SynbackSE.

An FYI: difference between incremental and differential is that differential copies all new / changed files since the last full backup......incremental copies all new / changed files since the last backup no matter what it was (incremental/full/differential).

Now to get your files back:

Tried a system restore on the server?