Little hic-up during file restore


  1. Hawker22
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    Little hic-up during file restore


    Greetings people. My OS(win7 ultimateX32) HD seemingly failed. So I bought a new HD and reinstalled Win 7. At this point, I was thinking that I had lost all of my files. However, when I hit "restore", I was presented with about 12 restore points which are on a second HD. Naturally, I chose the latest one, which was still quite recent, so I did the restore. When it was complete, I looked for my files and they were not there. I remembered seeing something about "USER", so I went there and sure enough, there were all the restored files under a different user called admin. Now, my latest install was given a different user name, "Ken".
    My question is---can I easily get all of my freshly restored files(favs., contacts, and pics) back into their proper places under my "Ken" user of my fresh Win7 install?? Or do I have to manually move them.
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  3. Brink
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    Hello Hawker, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    I would recommend to copy and paste the files you wanted from admin to the Ken using two Windows Explorer windows opened side by side to help make it easier. :)

    Hope this helps,
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  4. whs
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    System restore only restores system files - no user files. But you can recover user files from restore points with Shadow Explorer
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  6. kado897
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    You will need to create the user before you copy the files across.

    What I mean is that you cant create a user by just copying the user directory.
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  7. Hawker22
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    Thanks guys. I got most all of my system files back into their proper places of my fresh Win7 install. So, are favorites-contacts-downloads-documents considered system or user files? Anyway, I was able to get what I needed thru RESTORE.
    Guess I should look into cloud???????????????????????????
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  8. Brink
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    That's great news Hawker. :)

    Favorites-contacts-downloads-documents would be considered user files.

    Nar, save your money and just backup to a separate external or internal HDD.
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