Windows 7 just deleted 4 days of work

Posted by Mat on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Mat
Published on 2011-03-07T22:24:06Z Indexed on 2011/03/08 16:12 UTC
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Hey!

I'm just a bit about to freak out. I just finished a project and rebooted my computer. It didn't want to boot anymore so I had to use the Windows 7 system repair option. It ran for a minute and then booted up. Now most of my source code from the last 4 days of work is gone!

Background: sometimes (most often after installing new software) my notebook won't boot up anymore. It will just show the little Windows 7 flag, but not read from the hard disk anymore. If I hard-abort and reboot then, it asks me whether to start Windows normally (which won't work) or to run "Windows startup repair". If I run it, it does some stuff for about two or three minutes and then I can boot Windows again. Usually after this, .exe files I added to the computer during previous days are gone - but other files so far were not touched.

But now, after this happened, a whole bunch of ".as" (ActionScript source files) from my project are gone!

Does anyone know where and whether there's a way to recover them?

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