Where does Vista hide my docs/settings when taking drive out ofcomputer??

[Boppy]

Hi guys, I think Vista does some weird complicated thing with user
data - today a tech installed Win 7 on a new hard drive and gave me
my
old hard drive to transfer stuff across. I've got it plugged in to my
USB port. I can find all my old program files, etc, but all of my
docs
and settings are gone.

There is no directory called Users/Jo (which was the address on my
old
vista machine).


Last time I had to reinstall Windows the tech had to install the old
drive on a particular machine to get my data off - we thought that
was
because Vista SP1 crashed and destroyed the machine. However, this
time around, there was no crashing yet I still can't find my user
files. Where are they?


Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!


Jo

am going to find a Win 7 forum to post this to also - surely am not
the only person this has happened to.

 

[Alias]

Hi guys, I think Vista does some weird complicated thing with user
data - today a tech installed Win 7 on a new hard drive and gave me
my
old hard drive to transfer stuff across. I've got it plugged in to my
USB port. I can find all my old program files, etc, but all of my
docs
and settings are gone.

There is no directory called Users/Jo (which was the address on my
old
vista machine).


Last time I had to reinstall Windows the tech had to install the old
drive on a particular machine to get my data off - we thought that
was
because Vista SP1 crashed and destroyed the machine. However, this
time around, there was no crashing yet I still can't find my user
files. Where are they?


Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!


Jo

am going to find a Win 7 forum to post this to also - surely am not
the only person this has happened to.

Put the Vista hard drive back in the machine and use external media to
back up your data.

 

[Boppy]

Put the Vista hard drive back in the machine and use external media to
back up your data.

Changed the show hidden files setting and found the directory - it had
been hidden as it was a password protected directory.