How to get your deleted files back after Windows 10 update

I'm sure people can expect many helpful calls from 'support' to help return their files.
 
“If you’ve run into the missing files after update issue for 1809/October 2018 Fall update, please call our support line. They have the tools to get you back to a good state,” said Sarkar.
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How can you run into something that's missing? If you do it's no longer missing. :unsure:
 
I remember a version of Windows 3.1 that we called a Boot Sector virus, because any drive we formatted using it would have its boot sector corrupted. And now we have a Windows 10 version running RansomWare without a ransom.
 
So anyone contacted MS? Maybe they now have their own software recovery utility they provide.
 
Compton_effect said:
I remember a version of Windows 3.1 that we called a Boot Sector virus, because any drive we formatted using it would have its boot sector corrupted. And now we have a Windows 10 version running RansomWare without a ransom.
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That depends, if they selling there Undelete software.
 
ArtyLoop said:
What a crap OS, when an upgrade trashes your files..
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If that is your measure for what is crap then Linux must be really at the bottom, I remember clearly losing loads of files during the ReiserFS and Ext3 upgrades in the past.

Yes this is a bad move esp seeing that Microsoft skipped the "Test phase" of this update before pushing it into Windows Update, so they paying for that big time.
 
And people wonder why I have a firm 'if ain't broke, don't fix it' policy when it comes to updates. Especially Winblows updates. I can't even count how many times I broke perfectly functioning software with 'necessary' updates before I learned my lesson and stopped doing it. If it is working just fine, JUST LEAVE IT ALONE!!! Only do an update if stops working and you are sure the problem is going to be solved by doing an update. The ONLY software I have come across that falls into this category on regular basis are video codecs and similar media related stuff.
 
Zoomzoom said:
And people wonder why I have a firm 'if ain't broke, don't fix it' policy when it comes to updates. Especially Winblows updates. I can't even count how many times I broke perfectly functioning software with 'necessary' updates before I learned my lesson and stopped doing it. If it is working just fine, JUST LEAVE IT ALONE!!! Only do an update if stops working and you are sure the problem is going to be solved by doing an update. The ONLY software I have come across that falls into this category on regular basis are video codecs and similar media related stuff.
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I sure as hell hope your not in IT cause if you are you doing it wrong. Security updates needs to be pushed asap but you never ever do it 1st on live systems.

Rule 1 Install WSUS to take control of who what and why updates happen.
Rule 2 Always test updates, even if you have to install virtual images with copies of production systems and test, test thoroughly.
Rule 3 Always wait at least a week after Rule 2 before you click on OK to push and never, I mean never bloody ever push updates unless you followed rule 4.
Rule 4 Always back-up, and by back-up I mean make sure your restore works on a separate system (Virtual PC also works for this). Don't just back-up and think its done, RESTORE that back-up.

If you do not update your systems you may as well remove your firewall as it serves no purpose in your company regardless of OS you use in-house.
 
Zoomzoom said:
And people wonder why I have a firm 'if ain't broke, don't fix it' policy when it comes to updates. Especially Winblows updates. I can't even count how many times I broke perfectly functioning software with 'necessary' updates before I learned my lesson and stopped doing it. If it is working just fine, JUST LEAVE IT ALONE!!! Only do an update if stops working and you are sure the problem is going to be solved by doing an update. The ONLY software I have come across that falls into this category on regular basis are video codecs and similar media related stuff.
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It's apparently centred around the new hype thing, Ray Tracing. nVidia have been spamming driver updates lately, too.
 
AlphaJohn said:
I sure as hell hope your not in IT cause if you are you doing it wrong. Security updates needs to be pushed asap but you never ever do it 1st on live systems.

Rule 1 Install WSUS to take control of who what and why updates happen.
Rule 2 Always test updates, even if you have to install virtual images with copies of production systems and test, test thoroughly.
Rule 3 Always wait at least a week after Rule 2 before you click on OK to push and never, I mean never bloody ever push updates unless you followed rule 4.
Rule 4 Always back-up, and by back-up I mean make sure your restore works on a separate system (Virtual PC also works for this). Don't just back-up and think its done, RESTORE that back-up.

If you do not update your systems you may as well remove your firewall as it serves no purpose in your company regardless of OS you use in-house.
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I am not in IT and most home-users are not in IT so they blindly follow what the guy in the shop told them to do. Of course I won't think that the issues caused by many updates resulting in things not working, incompatibility issues that suddenly crop up etc are not partly designed to generate income when you have to take your computer in to get them to help you roll it back to a check point and/or undo the updates.

I still have Win 7 on my PC and will cry tears of sadness when the day arrives that I have to update to the awful dreck that is Win 10. My daughter was gifted with a laptop by my mom and my sister in all her ignorant helpfulness decided to do her a kindness and install Win 10. Only somehow she didn't just update it, she completely deleted Win 8 (it was a Win 8 laptop) so now I can't even roll it back to Win 8. It gives us endless hassles. I do NOT have the data to update 3/4 GB or whatever the latest giant size of it is. And I certainly can't afford any of the frequent complete disasters that occur with Win 10 updates. This is not the first time that an update has caused serious harm. Won't be the last either I'm sure. So unless MS is going to roll up at my house to fix things if their garbage breaks it for free I am not trusting the welfare of my limited resources to their updates thank you very much.
 
Zoomzoom said:
I am not in IT and most home-users are not in IT so they blindly follow what the guy in the shop told them to do. Of course I won't think that the issues caused by many updates resulting in things not working, incompatibility issues that suddenly crop up etc are not partly designed to generate income when you have to take your computer in to get them to help you roll it back to a check point and/or undo the updates.

I still have Win 7 on my PC and will cry tears of sadness when the day arrives that I have to update to the awful dreck that is Win 10. My daughter was gifted with a laptop by my mom and my sister in all her ignorant helpfulness decided to do her a kindness and install Win 10. Only somehow she didn't just update it, she completely deleted Win 8 (it was a Win 8 laptop) so now I can't even roll it back to Win 8. It gives us endless hassles. I do NOT have the data to update 3/4 GB or whatever the latest giant size of it is. And I certainly can't afford any of the frequent complete disasters that occur with Win 10 updates. This is not the first time that an update has caused serious harm. Won't be the last either I'm sure. So unless MS is going to roll up at my house to fix things if their garbage breaks it for free I am not trusting the welfare of my limited resources to their updates thank you very much.
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The irony is you're probably safer with an unupdated Win7 than an updated Win10 as exploits target newer systems and they forget about them once patches are released. It's mainly the release of the patches and not installing them that ensures safety.
 
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