Need advanced computer tech help - Updated BIOS & Windows Somehow Rolled Back?

[shootsacanon]

Do we have any fellow computer nerds who can help me out with an issue that I'm having?

I updated my BIOS, & as a result, Windows has seemed to have rolled back to a restore point in something like 2022 or something.
- My Document: empty
- Desktop: empty (except software icons from 2019 or 2022 or something)
- One Drive (local): empty
- Outlook: Rolled back to old version
- Other software all rolled back to old versions as well
- Etc, etc, etc

ASROCK X570 Taichi (updated to BIOS 5.60)
AMD 5950X

I checked system restore, and of course it doesn't show any available restore points available.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[shootsacanon]

After some serious prayer, God blessed me with the solution & solved it. This is my workstation computer and was going to be a huge setback if I hadn't been able to recover it.

 

[Mk1a]

What was the answer?

 

[CardsFan]

interested as well. BIOS is a different story from Windows.

Do you have a Dell system and BIOS? Did you do a system restore from that Dell backup??

 

[shootsacanon]

This is a home build, that has had some upgrades/merged components added since its initial build.

After the BIOS flash, the instructions are to save & exit, re-enter BIOS, & then reset default settings. In resetting default settings, I had unintentionally & unaware to me changed the boot drive from a Samsung NVME to a Samsung SSD (which happened to have been a boot drive on a previous system from 2019).

So when it restarted, it was as though I was staring over from this 2019 system, which was also a workstation, so it wasn’t super-obvious that it was booting from a different drive.

After Googling & finding nothing, & getting this 2019 version up to a usable state to start troubleshooting (Windows update/activation/network connection/gpu driver install/etc), I had gone back into BIOS to check the boot drives, but the top-level boot options only showed the SSD & DVD drive as boot options. So I moved on & went back to focusing on Windows.

The deeper I dug, the more I realized how much work I’d be losing, & time I’d lose as a result of having to recreate a lot of stuff.

I’d already prayed a good bit, but decided to pray and go to bed. I laid down, & had this inspiration that I needed to recheck the boot settings. I got up, started back into BIOS, & within a minute found a sub-level boot drive order menu that showed the NVME drives. I selected those, which then added them to the top-level boot drive order menu, and was the solution.

 

[edman99]

As a side note, if it ever did restore/rollback to an earlier point/time, I think it would save your current files, not delete them. I think it would move them all to a folder for later use.