Boppy wrote:
> Hi guys, I think Vista does some weird complicated thing with user
> data - today a tech installed Win 7 on a new hard drive and gave me
> my
> old hard drive to transfer stuff across. I've got it plugged in to my
> USB port. I can find all my old program files, etc, but all of my
> docs
> and settings are gone.
>
> There is no directory called Users/Jo (which was the address on my
> old
> vista machine).
>
>
> Last time I had to reinstall Windows the tech had to install the old
> drive on a particular machine to get my data off - we thought that
> was
> because Vista SP1 crashed and destroyed the machine. However, this
> time around, there was no crashing yet I still can't find my user
> files. Where are they?
>
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
>
>
> Jo
>
> am going to find a Win 7 forum to post this to also - surely am not
> the only person this has happened to.
Put the Vista hard drive back in the machine and use external media to
back up your data.
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