Windows.old folder missing documents

AliShaikh said:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Not with Undelete Plus either!
Am I screwed?

u mean to tell us u did a scan that only took 7 mins max? u might get better results doing a deep level scan. good luck!

Please read this.

Good luck,

Kari

dlevens said:

OK so first thing first.

AliShaikh, I have to say, I totally feel for ya man. Totally sucks and completely rediculous that an upgrade from a product this late in the game would jack it up that bad to actually delete or hide or whatever to your documents, videos, pictures, music etc.

WTF Microsoft?

OK so I too had this issue. Fortunately I have a full backup of ALL of my drives. Notice I said ALL of my drives!? Are you really kidding me? I actually needed a backup of a drive that should not have been involved in this upgrade? YUP, I sure did! POS! I still have many hours ahead of me to repair this mess, but AT LEAST I have all my backups.

But in my case I upgraded from Vista Ultimate 32bit to Windows 7 32 bit. But what is pissing me off is the data I lost and need to restore was 400gb of Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos all on a Separate freaking drive. I purposely keep all my important data that needs nightly backup on a separate drive D. Windows Vista was on drive C, and I upgraded drive C.

This is beyond pathetic that an upgrade would screw around with my data ON A SEPARATE drive. And like AliShaikh the size of my drive has not changed. So where did my stuff go? It is not hidden or set to system files. I have view hidden and system files on and they are just no there.

Microsoft and the engineers responsible get a freakin F across the board for upgrade. The LAST THING you screw with is people's data. How stupid did they engineer this to cause these issues? Look how pissed I am, and I lost NO data.

AliShaikh, I totally feel for you man, and no matter what people say you should have done with backups, there is no reason this close to release that Microsoft would have a product that would screw this up this bad to lose your data.

Dennis

I also feel your pain but I feel that I must mention one thing...

Microsoft clearly states that when performing an upgrade OR when Installing a copy of Windows 7 over Windows 7 (Installing to the same drive), the first foremost thing is to back up all your data. That is all I will say

dlevens said:

Zidane24,

I see, so your one of those guys eh? Kicking people when they are down, and backing an obvious bug by spewing some CYA garbage that MS slaps on everything? Give me a break dude.

Of course I backed up, but that is because I know better. And what do you tell the guy who like me had his data on ANOTHER drive completely?

If this was a network drive, would you spew out the same things? Well, uhh, you should have backed up all your computers in your house man, thats all I have to say. Give me a freakin break.

There is no justification for this. This is Windows, a product owning, what, 90+% percent of the world market? A vast majority of the business market? And this is near final code. There is no excuse for this.

Pathetic!

Dennis

Zidane told, polite and correctly, that he understands the OP but that Microsoft clearly states the importance of backup before upgrading. How can you find something negative on that?

Some Windows operations like installation, backup, creating a system image, a full and deep virus scan etc. take a lot of time. Most often this missing files issue when upgrading is a direct result of the laziness of the user: "No s***, it takes too long. Why bother?" Often this not so wise decision is based on some irresponsible comments like this:

kentucky said:

... I dont understand Why people back up files before a clean install. If you dont delete partition all of ur old files will be saved on the new OS in C/Program files /Windows.old folder.

Losing personal files when upgrading is always the users own fault. Microsoft has nothing to do with that. They tell very clearly you should always backup your personal files before doing an upgrade installation.

Kari

dlevens said:

Zidane24,

I see, so your one of those guys eh? Kicking people when they are down, and backing an obvious bug by spewing some CYA garbage that MS slaps on everything? Give me a break dude.

Of course I backed up, but that is because I know better. And what do you tell the guy who like me had his data on ANOTHER drive completely?

If this was a network drive, would you spew out the same things? Well, uhh, you should have backed up all your computers in your house man, thats all I have to say. Give me a freakin break.

There is no justification for this. This is Windows, a product owning, what, 90+% percent of the world market? A vast majority of the business market? And this is near final code. There is no excuse for this.

Pathetic!

Dennis

LMAO!!! To the other guy I will say the same thing...backup his data. Backups extend to external drives, DVD, etc....Also your taking the comment to the extreme; I have never known of Windows 7 manipulating a drive NOT being used for setup. Networking is NOT EVEN RUNNING at the beginning of setup...how would you explain the modifications there? Windows DNE OS Software + Babysitter...the end user is responsible for making sure their data is secure and backup at all times. You would think that a little common sense would allow someone to see that upgrading/clean installing an OS is MAJOR and securing your data beforehand would be sufficient

Perhaps I have too much faith in people