Windows 10: PLEASE HELP MY COMPUTER LOST ALL MY PAST DATA

MY WINDOWS ON MY OLDER PC LAPTOP IS TOTALLY GONE. I DO NOT KNOW IF THIS HAPPENED WHEN I SIGNED UP FOR OFFICE 365 BUT MY COMPUTER IS BARREN NO APPS WON'T LET ME SEARCH TO C: DRIVE PLEASE HELP!!! I DONT KNOW IF I WAS HACKED - BEC ITEMS DISAPPEARED RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES. I SAVED A FILE FOLDER ON THE DESKTOP WITH AN EXCEL FILE IN IT -- IT IS GONE

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How recovery cut and paste lost data?

1. Steps to reproduce

(I'm not sure, that I remember my steps 100%)

I wanted to move from folder A to folder B my photos (~20 photos). In Windows Explorer Right_Click to folder A → Cut → I move in Windows Explorer to folder B → Ctrl+V. At the same time I cut other folder to folder B. After a few minutes I see, that I'm not have my photos in folder A and folder B. I need my photos and I try recovery it.

UPD: Now I enable TeraCopy application and get similar problem is reproduced for me. I select folder Drake in Windows Explorer → I press Ctrl+X → in other folder I press Ctrl+V. I get popup:


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Now I can not find folder Drake in my computer.

2. Not helped

1. I pressed many times Ctrl+Z, but I don't see my photos in folder A and folder B,
   
2. I did not find my lost photos in recycle bin,
   
3. I did not find my lost photos in temp folder,
   
4. I did not find my photos in my computer using native Windows Search and Agent Rasnack program,
   
5. I did not find my photos using Free Clipboard Viewer program,
   
6. I check my computer for viruses use HerdProtect — I have not viruses.
   
7. Right_Click → Properties → Previous versions → I did not find previous versions of my folder A and folder B.
   
8. I did not find my photos, running full recovery search of
   
   • Recuva,
     
   • GetDataBack for NTFS,
     
   • EasyUS Data Recovery Wizard
     
   • Remo Recover,
     
   • PhotoRec. PhotoRec restore 2 photos in bad quality for me.
     

3. Questions

1. How can I even try to recover my photos?
   
2. Are built-in or third-party methods without lost data use Cut operation?
   

4. Do not offer

1. Please, do not tell me, that I had copy files from folder A to folder B and then delete files from folder A. Now I understood it for all life.
   

5. Environment

• Windows 32-bit 10.0.14393
  
• TeraCopy 2.27
  

Thanks.

 

Lost data from hard drive, what to do now?

Well, I'm sorry to hear that it's a WD My Passport that failed on you, @tomhenry ! *Frown
I'd recommend you to try using a different USB cable with it and see if that will help your system to detect it without it disconnecting.
I'd also suggest you to go to Disk Management and see how the drive is listed there. It won't hurt to check up on the health and SMART status of the HDD by running the QUICK and EXTENDED tests from the WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. Here's a link to the available software: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=11ZOpD

Give these troubleshooting steps a try and keep us posted with the results!
SuperSoph_WD

 

Help! Data partition not showing under my computer

This is happening on a windows 2000 server. Our second partition of the system, for data is not showing under my computer. Here are the properties of it in disk management:





Now under logical drives its listed as F and shows free space available.

Suggestions on how to fix this?