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W7 boots up strange, and 'deletes' all files...why?
So I just bought a dell studio laptop, and it came with windows 7 ultimate on it. Loved it to pieces...for the first four days while it worked.
I just booted it up this morning, and the thing has decided that it'll come up with a black screen, and deleted all my files (not that I had much, and a good majority was backed up, but even so...). First time I booted it up, there was nothing on the desktop, and the taskbar icons weren't visible (replaced by the generic blank page icon). Also, the aero theme was disabled, even though the personalise menu was listed as having my theme set. I figured it was nothing major, and shut it down, gave it 10 mins, then rebooted. From here, it starts going downhill:
- after reboot, the icons on desktop return, but wallpaper is still black. Folders I had on the desktop, and indeed everywhere else, no longer exist for some reason.
- attempting to open the recycle bin on this second reboot results in some strange message saying it couldn't load the thing as some important file couldn't be accessed.
- At this stage, I attempt a system restore, which seems to almost complete, then as it reaches the still black desktop, it says the restore failed for some reason.
- Attempting a restore further back brings back the desktop, but no files.
- A final system restore to undo the previous system restores yields the lame theme that was installed when I first booted the computer after I got it (some Dell one), and-big surprise-no files.
I've spent probably the last 2 hours looking around the net for information, but thus far haven't really found much that sounds like it could either be the cause or a solution. The last things that I installed on the computer before turning it off last night include iTunes. It worked fine yesterday.
Anyone know why the files disappeared, and/or how to get them back? Would greatly appreciate any help :)