Recovery system windows sold laptop

[qsdfghjklm]

Hi everybody,

I have sold my Asus laptop after having done a recovery of windows but I scream about my windows datas. In fact, windows was installed on D:// (with program files etc...) and my datas on C://. I have selected the first option of the recovery system "recover windows to first partition only". So is it possible that my ancient windows is still on D:// with all the files related to (App data, program files...) ?

Thank you for our answer !

 

[gregrocker]

Please boot into the new WIn7 (the one you'd like to sell the PC with) and post back a screenshot of http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...nt-post-screen-capture-image.html#post2261610.

If we confirm that the first large partition is C and is marked "Boot" meaning it is the presently booted partition, then you can go ahead and delete the Data partition in Disk Mgmt to clear it, then create and label a new Data partition in the space:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2668-partition-volume-delete.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2674-partition-volume-create-new.html

 

[qsdfghjklm]

Thank you for your answer,

Sorry, as I mentioned it, I have already sold my computer. So, If the recovery is not done on the same partition as the ancient windows, it means that the ancient windows is not deleted ?

Thank you

 

[gregrocker]

There should be no Program Files on D unless you directed them there. Did you notice if there was a Windows folder on D? That would mean Win7 was installed on D instead of C. This can only happen if the installer is run from C blocking out that letter to use.

If you deleted your data and Win7 runs fine then it may be OK but we'd really need to see DIsk Mgmt to know for sure, or know that the Windows folder is not on D but on C where it belongs.

 

[qsdfghjklm]

Thank you very much.

 

[gregrocker]

Did you sell the laptop without first checking that your data was off of it?

Ask your friend which Recovery he chose from Asus Factory Recovery. If he chose the first one it would leave any data on the data partition. Did you keep your data there or in User folders on C drive (Documents, Pictures, Music, etc.)

Is there any chance your User folders were moved to the D drive earlier? You or your tech guy would know if they were. If you kept your data in the User folders and they were not moved to D then they were probably wiped out before C was reinstalled by Recovery.

 

[qsdfghjklm]

I think that I've got bad news :

Windows and all files related to it were on D while the other datas were kept on C. He has selected the first option for recovery, which probably has erased the C disk.
I didn't check if all datas were wiped since the install setup started after recovery and I thought my laptop was brand new !


I had a session with password on my previous windows (D disk), but I suppose that the new user can access my ancient windows files such as program files which may have staid on the D disk ? My only expectation was that the recovery system, when written "recovery to first partition", meant recovery to the OS partition...

 

[gregrocker]

How do you know your named Account's User folders (Document, Pictures, etc) were on D? Did you or someone move them for you? This isn't' normally done at the factory, only modified by the user after purchase.

 

[qsdfghjklm]

I didn't bought a new laptop, someone gave it to me after having erased the datas but keeping the partitions

 

[gregrocker]

I asked you if you stored your data in the User folders.

If so then unless you know for sure someone moved them to D, it's likely they were wiped clean when Factory Recovery was done.

 

[qsdfghjklm]

The location of my sensitive professional datas are in the folder Backup, following this path :

Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

So, do you mean that the datas of this folder "Backup" have been wiped even if my friend has chosen the recovery to another partition than the one on which this folder was ?

If yes, very last question just for the future in case I'll do the same stuff on my other computers (and without my friend !), is it also true for windows XP ?

Thank you so much for your answer.

 

[gregrocker]

Documents and Settings directly is for XP, not Win7. But either way that would be in the C drive unless those folders were deliberately moved to D. Since the C drive would have been wiped out with the Recovery choice that was made, then that folder should not have survived.

However I would have checked D to see what remained there as chances are some things might have been there that needed deleting before you handed over the PC.