Where does Vista hide my docs/settings when taking drive out ofcomputer??

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Boppy

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.
 
Boppy said:
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.
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Put the Vista hard drive back in the machine and use external media to
back up your data.
 
Put the Vista hard drive back in the machine and use external media to
back up your data.
Click to expand...


Changed the show hidden files setting and found the directory - it had
been hidden as it was a password protected directory.
 
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