Thank you for the post Angelahoffman,

Sounds almost exactly like me.  I'm sorry same thing happened to you.  This weekend, my son is going to remote into my computer and and run a windows program that will possibly be able to recover the lost files.  He told me that as long as where the files were, on the hard drive, hadn't been written over by new files, there is a possibility they can be recovered.  Got my fingers crossed.

Good luck to you.

Richard