Recovery of lost files (after inappropriate system restore date)

Hello,

I would like to ask for your help with my problem:

2 days ago I had a virus on my laptop, so I restored it to an older version. However, I accidently restored it to 02/2014 date. So now I have the files before this date, but missing the ones up until the restoration was done.

I tried using two softwares (Advanced File Recovery 4.1 and Recuva) and both softwares "see" the files after 02/2014, and they can be "restored", but can't be previewed or opened - but they have a proper file size.
I get the error message when I want to open any docs (in Word): "The file is damaged."

Is there any way to restore these files? If so, how?

Thanks for your help in advance!

 

Sorry, it was most likely a "backup", not restore.

 

trevisz...

I took a look around, and I found mostly bad news. Unrecoverable files in programs like Recuva will appear recoverable to the program, but, if the file was fragmented, it will recover without some portions of the file intact. I did find this, which might be worth looking into:

http://superuser.com/questions/432535/successful-data-recovery-but-most-files-are-corrupted

Good luck

Oh...one thing. Do you have a more recent backup? You could restore files only from that backup, which would at least get you closer to current. I don't do it yet either, but this is a good testimony for folder/file syncing. I have 15 or so programs running already in the system tray, so I keep putting it off. When I get a more current and powerful PC, I will probably begin with this as this PC has a 1st gen i3 processor.

 

Unfortunately I haven't got a more recent backup. I don't know how there wasn't a more recent one... :S

As I have read, the site pretty much tells me that I'm fckd.

Thank you very much for your help!

 

It was an image rather than a system restore point and restoring an image overwrites much if not most of what was there previously making recovery of old files improbable. Images are not created automatically so you or ANO created that image in 02/14 and haven't created one since. It was probably a Win 7 system backup.

 

Use something like SyncBackFree. You create what are called profiles that define which files are to be backed up, where to store the backup, and how the backup is to be run (full, incremental only etc). You can run a profile manually or set it to run automatically to a schedule. It has no impact at all on system resources as it is not running all the time.

http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html

 

Thank you guys for your help, I think the thread now may be marked as "solved".