Lost Documents

This is probably a waste of everyone's time - but is there any way to recover
your documents from your hard drive if you installed (not upgraded) from XP
to Vista? I've lost everything and I'm dying over here!

Has the existing installation of XP been over-written by Vista?I mean,if
both reside in the same partition in your system,are they in different
folders?

"Brilaureni" <> wrote in message
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This is probably a waste of everyone's time - but is there any way to
recover
your documents from your hard drive if you installed (not upgraded) from XP
to Vista? I've lost everything and I'm dying over here!

If you booted from the Vista DVD, deleted the XP partition, formatted the
Drive, and then installed Vista; it is gone!
If you have somehow installed it on the same partition, look for a
windows.old folder!
You say you did not upgrade, but if you installed it from within XP, who
knows!
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Brilaureni" wrote:

> This is probably a waste of everyone's time - but is there any way to recover
> your documents from your hard drive if you installed (not upgraded) from XP
> to Vista? I've lost everything and I'm dying over here!

If you have an 'old' folder look in 'Documents & Settings' under your user
name.
Whether you upgraded or not you should allways backup data, perhaps you'll
now put this on your to do list

"Mick Murphy" <> wrote in message
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> If you booted from the Vista DVD, deleted the XP partition, formatted the
> Drive, and then installed Vista; it is gone!
> If you have somehow installed it on the same partition, look for a
> windows.old folder!
> You say you did not upgrade, but if you installed it from within XP, who
> knows!
> --
> Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia
>
>
> "Brilaureni" wrote:
>
>> This is probably a waste of everyone's time - but is there any way to
>> recover
>> your documents from your hard drive if you installed (not upgraded) from
>> XP
>> to Vista? I've lost everything and I'm dying over here!

Brilaureni wrote:

> This is probably a waste of everyone's time - but is there any way to
> recover your documents from your hard drive if you installed (not
> upgraded) from XP to Vista? I've lost everything and I'm dying over here!

Asked and answered in detail already. Please don't multipost like this.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

Sorry - first time using this and I didn't think the first one posted - my bad!

"Malke" wrote:

> Brilaureni wrote:
>
> > This is probably a waste of everyone's time - but is there any way to
> > recover your documents from your hard drive if you installed (not
> > upgraded) from XP to Vista? I've lost everything and I'm dying over here!
>
> Asked and answered in detail already. Please don't multipost like this.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> Don't Panic!
>