i upgrade from windows 200 to XP Pro and losse documents

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Paolo

My name is Paolo
Some days ago i decide to upgrade windows 2000 pro to Indows XP Pro.
On the installation i made some mistake and i insert my name as account
user.
When i finish i discover that MY DOCUMENT was totally empty.
If i search on MY Computer i see that they are my documents
What i must do to solve this problem
Thank in advance
Paolo
 
If you did an upgrade, your data files in the previous My
Documents folder are still there, but XP has created a new
user and a folder for you. XP security protects user files,
you must take ownership of your old files/folders.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421




| My name is Paolo
| Some days ago i decide to upgrade windows 2000 pro to
Indows XP Pro.
| On the installation i made some mistake and i insert my
name as account
| user.
| When i finish i discover that MY DOCUMENT was totally
empty.
| If i search on MY Computer i see that they are my
documents
| What i must do to solve this problem
| Thank in advance
| Paolo
|
|
 
Hi Paolo,

Did you make a backup of your documents before upgrading? This is an often
skipped, extremely important step in performing any operating system
upgrade.

Unfortunately, I've seen this more than a few times when the same name was
used as a new account after the upgrade - all the userprofile-specific
folders pertaining to that username from the old system are overwritten. In
the case of an upgrade from Win2000, which is irreversible, the loss is
permanent. From 9x upgrades, sometimes an uninstall recovers them.

If the same username was not used, then the files should be found under
C:\Documents and Settings\<old_user_name>\My Documents, you would merely
need to take ownership of them to recover.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Ok i thank you for your answer ,but the problem is to take the ownership of
them.
How can i do it
Regards
Paolo
 
Paolo said:
Ok i thank you for your answer ,but the problem is to take the ownership
of
them.
How can i do it
Regards
Paolo
Click to expand...
The post by Jim Macklin refers you to the KB article which tells how to do
this.
Jim
 
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