"JDR" said in news:
[email protected]:
I recently upgraded from Windows Milleneum to Windows XP
Professional. I thought that my documents, pictures, movies, and
other items created in Windows Milleneum would remain, but after the
intallation they were all gone. What happened and can I get them
back? How do I get them back?
Thanks,
JDR
"documents, pictures, movies, and other items"
Do you mean all your documents that were under the My Documents folder?
It's been awhile since I used a 95-based version of Windows. From what I
recall, your profile was under C:\Windows\Profiles\<username>. My
Documents, by default, is located under your profile. For Windows XP, all
the account profiles go under "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>" so
under there would be, by default, where you find your My Documents folder.
So check if your old docs are under a C:\Windows\Profiles path and copy/move
them into your My Documents folder under Windows XP.
I would've thought that the Windows XP would have moved the My Documents
folder except that during the install your particular username hasn't yet
been defined so your profile doesn't exist yet. Pesonally, I never migrate
from a 95-based version of Windows to an NT-based version (NT is a
significantly different beast than the 95-based Windows so calling it an
upgrade is a misnomer; you are really migrating to a different operating
system just with a similar GUI, but I can run a Windows GUI on a Unix
platform). You also drag along a bunch of drivers that won't work under an
NT-based Windows. The install might replace most but may miss some, and
even for those it replaces you still end up with the old driver files taking
up space on your drive. There are also registry settings that aren't
applicable under the different OS. You carry a lot of trash and
incompatible garbage along with you upgrade instead of saving your data on
removable media and doing a fresh install (i.e., repartition, reformat,
install a new fresh and unpolluted instance of the OS).
