I went to the recycle bin to see if the deleted files went there but there were none. However I did see two pictures that I deleted that were originally from my Pictures folder. Restored it and "restored" my Picture folder but the only ones there were the images I restored. Dammit, I think its permanently gone now. Thanks for your suggestions but I think its time to accept it. I'll just have to start collecting Pepes again.
Checked out Events Viewer and I saw this "The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block." This is probably the reason why I can't access my Pictures folder anymore. Also used Recuva but to no avail. I still don't know why it only affect one specific folder. Oh well. Thanks guys.
>>1459620I'll try that as my last resort.