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[loopofeternity]

Hi everyone
ive done a stupid thing and reinstalled windows over windows without saving anything
can see where windows old file is but no download and document.
are they gone for good or just hidden somewhere?

 

[UKMedia]

Look under Windows.old/users/[user name]/documents. Let me know? Can you include a screen shot for Windows.old/users?

Regards
UKMedia

 

[loopofeternity]

all it shows is the following

perflogs
program files
profiles(x86)
windows

 

[Ztruker]

That's Windows.old, not Windows.old\Users

Using Windows Explorer, expand C:\Windows.old and post a screen capture.
Expand C:\Windows.old\Users and post a screen capture.

 

[loopofeternity]

Hi,as you can probably tell this is first time on a laptop as I don't know how to post a screen shot.
Can you control my laptop as I have heard it may be possible.

 

[loopofeternity]

Windows.old/users is not on there

 

[Ztruker]

If Windows.old\Users is not there then your data is gone, sorry.

You could try running a program like Recuva but I don't think you'll have much success.

 

[loopofeternity]

Thanks for your reply,gutted ive lost everything.
I was hoping that there was going to be a way of undoing last installation.
Once again thank you for the help.

 

[Ztruker]

That's why doing regular backups is so important.

Once a week, once a month or whenever you make any significant change to your computer, use a program like Macrium Reflect Free to make an image backup to an external USB hard drive. At the very least you should be backing up your data but an image backup is a better choice.

Won't help you now but will in the future.