Moved Roaming folder from appdata to another hard drive and now my computer is broken.

[Zack24905]

Ok so i was trying to move my Roaming folder and Local folder from C: drive to my other drive(G and did this by right clicking the roaming folder and then properties then location. I got an error of some kind so I deleted the roaming files on my G: drive to try and move again and I didn't have the location tab in properties this time, so I tried to restart my computer and when my computer booted my whole windows was different, as in my icons on my task bar were missing all my passwords and google bookmarks were gone and my start menu won't even respond when I click the start button on my screen or keyboard. I restarted a few times and don't have a backup of my pc and I don't know what to do to restore my computer. I have over a total of 4 TB on all my hard drives and I really don't want to reinstall all my games, apps, and risk the chance of losing personal information. Please Help and Thank You In Advance!

 

[atomicWAR]

Best thing you can try at this point is a system restore, use a point before you messed with your appdata folder and pray for the best.

 

[little_me]

Roaming folder houses all of following:
All browser saved passwords/bookmarks
All desktop/start menu customizations you have
All settings any and all programs did on your profile ([strike]new logon[/strike]New user profile might work for this but old data is still gone)

you deleted them after moving them to other drive, they are "lost"
you don't have backups of them, they are gone.

If you didn't have file history on, you might be out of luck.

best bet? undelete software might or might not be able to recover some of them.
you can find some of them by googling undelete files
https://www.easeus.com/resource/undeleted-file.htm

some might work, some might not, bear in mind that ANY writing to disk after deletion might have overwritten said deleted data and it might then be unrecoverable.

 

[Zack24905]

Best thing you can try at this point is a system restore, use a point before you messed with your appdata folder and pray for the best.

But i didn't backup before this happened so a system restore wouldn't work right?

 

[atomicWAR]

there should still be a restore point, windows creates them automatically. You should always create a restore point before trying things like you did. Since you didn't create one before doing this you may lose some work/installs but hopefully not everything. And again this may not work at all.

 

[atomicWAR]

assuming you have restore turn on and it is set to auto, which is defualt but some folks turn it off. If you are one of them, you're most likely out of luck.

 

[Zack24905]

there should still be a restore point, windows creates them automatically. You should always create a restore point before trying things like you did. Since you didn't create one before doing this you may lose some work/installs but hopefully not everything. And again this may not work at all.

How would i get the system restore because i can't even click the start button or search bar

 

[atomicWAR]

hit the windows key and I key at the same time. This will/should bring you to the windows settings page. Then type in "recovery" no quotes obviously. This will/should take you where you need to go. If your PC does not go to settings you may need to do things from a usb stick with win 10 on it and do the recovery there.