laptop self reset

[Iamrobertruff]

So I had a project open on my laptop and I closed it and let it be for the night. I opened my laptop the next morning and it decided to update itself (which I’ve turned off) and then It had me setup these weird settings and asked me to make it how I want (which I’ve only seen when first opening a laptop and setting it up the first time). It’s happened a few times and I have lost hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of work on my laptop because of this issue. Any suggestions? 

[WAWood]

@Iamrobertruff 

WOW -- you have THOUSANDS of dollars worth of work on your laptop -- and apparently were not willing to spend $10 and ten minutes backing up the files to external media?

Your best bet for recovering data now is to do the following:
1) Remove the disk drive from the old PC. If this is a SATA hard drive or a SATA SSD, this is a simple thing to do. If this is an m.2 SSD, that could be either screwed to the motherboard or soldered to the motherboard. If the second, you would need to have a techician remove it for you, or you risk seriously damaging the PC doing it yourself.
2) If you have a desktop PC with a spare hard drive connector, then connect the old drive to that. If the old drive is a SATA drive, connect both the power cable and the data cable. (This adapter is illustrated below) If the old drive is an m.2 SSD, you will need a USB-to-mSATA cable.

3) Try to retrieve the files and folders you want to save from the old drive and copy them to the new PC.

If this does not work, then you need to do the following:
1) Download and install this utility on a working PC
https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery-software/free-for-windows.html

2) Run the data recovery utility to see what can be retrieved from the old drive.

If that tool does not find what you need, an alternative is Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva

And, if that does not work well, the best tool out there is this one, but only the demo version is free https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm