| well I have a laptop which I am using as a desktop for now because of its lack of battery life with vista on it which I have never had major problems with that were the computers fault and not mine so it has always been pretty stable.  Last night I left my computer open and went away for a few hours.. I came back and it looked like someone had restarted it.  I assumed some cord had jiggled and shut off the power for a second or two, enough to cause it to restart.  Anyway I log in and bam my computer acts brand new like I just got it out of the box, nothing anywhere except all my games and installable stuff are still installed but all my programs stored in documents/programming were gone!!!! in fact nothing is left but things in the program files folder.  Good thing I back up some projects on my external hd but I didnt have everything on there and its very depressing seeing all of my work gone and it wasnt like I just forgot to save of something minor... the files are just gone... I did an hd test and it seemed good.  Also I restarted again and a file I had saved after it had reset in my documents was gone and this time I saw a message that said windows couldnt retrieve my accont data.  Does anyone know what this means or how to fix it?  I googled but couldnt find any answers. 
 
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