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Lost Files after Win7 Upgrade
Howdy All
I have just done the upgrade from Win7RC to Win7 Professional.
My laptop has two internal hard drives - C where the operating system and software is, and a larger D (500GB) where all my data is.
The installation onto C went fine. After re-start, I am, horrified to find that all the FILES in my folder tree in and under d:\My Documents are missing. In My Computer, the Drive shows as 65GB free on 465GB which means the files are probably still there. They're not hidden, I show hidden files and created a hidden file just to be sure. I tried taking ownership of one of the sub folders (don't want to make wholesale changes to the entire MyDocs folder in case I destroy an recoverability. No change.
To clarify - I can navigate my way through the entire folder tree - there are just no files in there anywhere apart from the odd ini file (such as picasa.ini)
There is only one account on the laptop, it's an Administrator account. There are other folders on the D drive - the contents of those folders are visible and accessible.
The only difference I can think of with the d:\My Documents folder is that it was part of the "Documents" library.
Help!
Any assistance greatly appreciated.
Regards, Ken