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My Documents vanished in Vista

Y2K_Phil

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Posted February 21, 2013 at 4:49PM

A friend of mine's laptop has died on him about 3 year old Windows Vista machine. It was pretty old and so he has just replaced it with a new Windows 7 machine.

I have taken the HD out of the old laptop and plugged it into my old XP all of his my docs etc where there. So I picked up a cheap USB adapter and plugged the old drive into his new laptop. When I then go to his old my docs Win 7 complains about permissions so I reset them on an admin log in so they are owned by the new Win 7 administrator. However when I then go into the doc's folder everything has disappeared. A colleague of mine suggested Windows 7 makes them hidden files/folders but now I have the drive back in my XP machine that doesn't appear to be the case.

Can anyone out there help my recover this data does Win 7 move it somewhere?

Cheers

Phil

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chub_tor

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Posted February 22, 2013 at 12:43PM

When the drive is plugged into your machine can you not drag/copy the files onto an external USB stick so that you can then put them onto his new machine or are you still asked for permissions for that?

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Y2K_Phil

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Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:04PM

I gained access to all of the folders but the contents of them have vanished and I cannot see how to recover them

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chub_tor

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Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:42PM

Are they hidden perhaps?

Follow these steps to display hidden files and folders.

Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.

Click the View tab.

Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, and then click OK.

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