Hello,
This is the situation...
Suddenly I received an error in windows, something like cannot locate the route of the specified file when attempting to open a folder, and at the same time other 200 folders that where present in the same directory as the one that I tried to open disappeared!
I rebooted, nothing. So I tried system restore, and well it fixed it, it restored all the files. But then I did the biggest mistake ever, I thought of undo the restoration and take note of some configs I made in the time between the last restore point and the actual state.
But right afterwards I undo the restoration it popped up a notification telling that there was little space on disk and !@# all system restore points where deleted. The reason for this it seems that when I restored the system I copied the vanished files to another partition (which it seems had system restore enabled on it too) causing this drive to lose all the restore points. After undoing the restoration the files copied to the other partition where lost as well.
So, my bet is somewhere these files are. I ran Recuva but it only detected a handful of the folders, even before I used the system restore point. Meaning the files where there but Recuva couldn't recover them.
Now, first thing I did after all the restore points where gone. Scanned with Recuva and saved the files to a third partition so I got this
File List C.txt (it seemed better idea instead of posting it on the code box)
So I'm sure the files are there and may be recovered but Recuva doesn't detect them.
Options that come to my mind is to attempt to recreate the old restore point using the files recovered with Recuva.
Else to only use the info related to the files and import** that info into an actual restore point. I already learnt how to access the system restore protected directory.
Third I can try to recover the files from the other (second partition) in which I copied the files as well but disappeared after I undo the restoration.
These files are quite important, meaning lots of lots of work hence all the effort to recover them.
Files Recovered in second partition (note I didn't manage to recover all - I ran out of space - up to 75% 1.77GB)
I forgot to mention I'm running Windows XP SP3...