Recovering files that existed after doing a clean install of W2K

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I had to perform a clean install of W2K last night and all
of the .doc, .xls files were gone. Is there a way to
recover these files ? If so what folder are they under ?
 
If you formatted the drive before the install, they are gone.
doc and xls files are generally created by the user.
Have you searched the entire drive for *.doc and *.xls files?
If these files were in you My Documents folder and you did not re-format
the drive, they should be under Documents and Settings\<original user
name>\My Documents.
Joe Griffin [MS]
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I had to perform a clean install of W2K last night and all
of the .doc, .xls files were gone. Is there a way to
recover these files ? If so what folder are they under ?
 
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