Help!! I've lost my "My Docoments" folder

[Guest]

Windows xp was playing up ion my pc, so I reinstalled windows. But doing so,
I think it deleted everything in the old windows. But now I have lost
everything I had in "my documents"!!!
I have gone to c:\documents and settings and nothing is there.
I haven't formatted my hard drive, so they must be somewhere?????? right???
Is there any possible way to reverse what I have done or find my old
documents???? They conatain all my work, music, photos etc.
I'm copmpletely gutted!
Please can anybody help???

Regards Neil

 

[Jason Haynes]

Just restore your files from your backup. You *do* have a backup, right?
Lesson learned the hard way.

 

[Guest]

Er..... No
Foolishly I thought It would just effect the windows directory.... Not my
precious bloody "my documents!"

 

[Rome]

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ ; if they really mean that much to you,
you'll pay for the software. it helped me out on more than one occasion.
hope this helps.

 

[Pat]

there is also some shareware software out there that might recover the
folder for you just enter undelete in your serch engine..

 

[Ron Bogart]

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Windows xp was playing up ion my pc, so I reinstalled windows. But
doing so, I think it deleted everything in the old windows. But now I
have lost everything I had in "my documents"!!!
I have gone to c:\documents and settings and nothing is there.
I haven't formatted my hard drive, so they must be somewhere??????
right??? Is there any possible way to reverse what I have done or
find my old documents???? They conatain all my work, music, photos
etc.
I'm copmpletely gutted!
Please can anybody help???

Regards Neil

Do a search for *.MP3, *.WMA or any other files you think you had and see
where they are sitting now.

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