Windows 11 Has Completely Reset And Now My Saves Are Gone!!!! 95 Hours in!

[Uzeless]

I booted up my gaming rig this morning and found that my Windows profile had COMPLETELY reset for no reason. After logging in, I found that Steam was still installed. I loaded it up and also found that Oblivion was also still installed, but when I loaded it, it did the 'shaders' loading in thing that it does on first boot up. Once I finally managed to make it to the main screen, there is no option to continue. Only New Game is available. Cloud Sync is on. I only played yesterday and now everything is gone! Can anyone help?

[Rage]

Linux wins agaiiin

[WalnutTundra]

At least Oblivion Remastered doesn't: crushes every hour for you.

[Slumcat Millionaire]

Should've stuck to Windows 10... smh...

[ah, salmonn]

decomission windows 10 with 28fps wasn't that bad ig.

[Sirius Black]

Profile reset itself [learn.microsoft.com]

[Berserk Breton]

Awesome, they have somehow surpassed the data nuking capabilities of OneDrive.

Upgrade's gonna be great everyone, welcome to the future, where your OS might randomly reset your user because it corrupted its own metadata, lol

[markdb92]

Its called do not use a microsoft account for daily use account. If you use one drive anyone can see your stuff there that includes your bitlocker key. If your using bitlocker I might suggest using one of the free open source ones so a third party can not ask MS for the key. That is why business do not use them.

Another thing is someone might have hacked your steam account and downloaded the game and then deleted all your saves in the steam cloud. Might want to check account logs to rule that out.

[lailaamell]

One day ppl will realise xp was the best windows and return to it

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by Uzeless:

I booted up my gaming rig this morning and found that my Windows profile had COMPLETELY reset for no reason. After logging in, I found that Steam was still installed. I loaded it up and also found that Oblivion was also still installed, but when I loaded it, it did the 'shaders' loading in thing that it does on first boot up. Once I finally managed to make it to the main screen, there is no option to continue. Only New Game is available. Cloud Sync is on. I only played yesterday and now everything is gone! Can anyone help?

Check if you have a Windows.old folder. You probably had a fatal issue or forced update, in both cases you should get a "Windows.old" folder in modern Windows editions and it should exist as long as you don't have software that will automatically clean it up

Typical location: C:\

[★REM★]

Originally posted by Uzeless:

I booted up my gaming rig this morning and found that my Windows profile had COMPLETELY reset for no reason. After logging in, I found that Steam was still installed. I loaded it up and also found that Oblivion was also still installed, but when I loaded it, it did the 'shaders' loading in thing that it does on first boot up. Once I finally managed to make it to the main screen, there is no option to continue. Only New Game is available. Cloud Sync is on. I only played yesterday and now everything is gone! Can anyone help?

What does it mean "windows 11 has completely reset".

I mean, blame windows, not the game?
Also, if you had either steam cloud disabled or onedrive documents folder backup enabled that caused the saves to not go on steam cloud, you can't blame the game, it is actually your fault.

[Princess Luna]

Originally posted by Sirius Black:

Profile reset itself [learn.microsoft.com]

What a user-oriented OS

[Princess Luna]

Originally posted by lailaamell:

One day ppl will realise xp was the best windows and return to it

Win 7 better

[Kaspar]

Maybe check for a Windows.old folder on your C: drive?