Sim 3 Wired Data Gone

Hey
ok so i had been playing a while with sims and like 5 days after i got it i loss all my data but started again and got my sims at top of everything and that. hous was big and then i got bored so i havent played 9it in a while. Today i came back to it and though ill make a new person so loaded it up butwhere i have the family i have to click there was nothing and it just took me to new game. I though i might of done something wrong so loaded it up again but there was no saves, last time i played was a while ago. I dono where its gone, i mean 3rd time to restart building my sims but i had it going well in other saves, iv looking in documents/elec/sim3/saves but nothing, any help
Joey ;)