Question for the computer gurus

I came home Sunday evening and my desktop had been on for a couple of days I restarted it and when it rebooted it did a full sytem restoration for some reason. I lost everything.... ten years worth of pics, music, documents etc. I know I should have had it all backed up but I didn't. If any one has a clue what happened please help. The pics I really hate the thought of losing

I would not want to begin to tell you how to re-boot it yourself, but I do know all your stuff is on your hard drive.
Last resort if you do not get an answer, take it to a shop and they can recover it for you.

Good luck

I talked to my local shop I have used before and they are talking couple of hundred bucks but I will pay it if I have to. Trying to figure something out on my own but I cant lose my pictures no matter what it cost.

System Restore on my Windows XP laptop has a checkable option to undo my last restoration. If you have System Restore enabled, you should be able to undo it yourself.

I have always been able to get back all my stuff with system restore.
I have an old tower(my 1st pc) that after 10 of not being able to get past the blue screen ( I actually stopped trying after 3) I took it to a pc geek and got everything transfered to my new LT.

Before you get you panties in a major bunch, everything IS still on your Hard Drive. You just can't see it.

When you delete something it doesn't get rid of it, just marks it. Kinda like taking the garbage bag w/garbage out of the can and put it by the door to take out. The garbage IS still there until you throw it out.

What to do, there are recovery programs you can use to go out and recover what you lost. They run about $40 to $60. One note, other than the recovery program, DO NOT ADD OR DELETE ANYTHING FROM YOUR HARD DRIVE. Load the recovery program and recover what you lost, then save as much of it to a USB or another HD.

If you lost 10 years of data, then every Windows update won't be there, which of course will require 9 billion downloads with the required 9 billion restarts. That will be about as fun as being pinned under a car trying to reach for a jack that is just out of reach.

Since it is your pics that you are trying to recover, I would try this FREE software download.

snapfiles photo recovery

It has good reviews.

good luck

Thank you all for the great info, just got everything back through system restore.

Awesome. Can we now see some of these valuable pictures?

Trolling for porno again, eh Snidely??