Question User Profile disappeared and deleted on Windows 10

Feb 5, 2025
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Hello everyone,

I am actually stuck and becoming soon crazy because of a problem with windows 10. Yesterday I opened my computer, and I got logged in with a temporary account. I tried to find a solution but found nothing, i manipulated the registry to make windows bootable on my user profile but still no luck. Still, I could find my profile folder under the User folder, with all of my data. The problem is that now it got worse and worse ! I found some instructions online saying that I need to run two commands:

1. sfc /scannow

2. Dism /Online /cleanup-image /restorhealth


The thing is that after the second instructions was run into my command line, I realized that my User profile disappeared and was somehow deleted from my computer.

Now, I want to know how I can get back this folder which is containing all my life for more than 13 years now. I am starting to be depressed when realizing that everything just vanished.

I will be so grateful if someone here encounter the same issue and can help me find a solution, I am so desperate.

Thank you.
 
all you life info and there is no backup?

#1 stop using your pc now
get a new storage. unplug the one having issue. install windows on the new storage.
then try data recovery on the one having issue.
 
all you life info and there is no backup?

#1 stop using your pc now
get a new storage. unplug the one having issue. install windows on the new storage.
then try data recovery on the one having issue.
I was stupid enough to trust windows, my device and my SSD …
 
I was stupid enough to trust windows, my device and my SSD …
You trust your driving skills, right?
But you still have car insurance, right?...😉


A good backup has been preached for years...decades.
Ignore that at your peril.

If you can install a new OS on a physically different drive, do that.
Then and only then, attempt to find an copy the data from your old drive.

Do this now.
 
That is what I am actually doing. I took my professional laptop, plugged my ssd as usb and launched Disk Drill, it will take 7 hours to scan everything. The thing that I don’t understand is how the second command I performed, made everything disappear in my User profile ? Do you have any informations about it ? Thanks