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Old April 5th 06, 12:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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I have a ME system that has failed and I have removed the Hard Drive and am
accessing it in a USB external Hard Drive enclosure in an XP system in order
to retrieve some wanted data files.
I can access the desired My Documents files but cannot find a folder of
several hundred megs of photo images (all jpgs) that was on the Desktop,
Where should I expect to find them?
However I think that they are not actually visible anywhere, due to a
probable data corruption when the PC failed.
If this is so, it seems probable that the files are probably still actually
on the hard drive even though I can't see them.
What utility and/or technique could I use to try and retrieve them?
I know the name of the desired, but invisible, folder.
Any help would be appreciated.
Brian Tozer


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Old April 5th 06, 12:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Have you tried doing a search for the folder name? - it should be in the
c:\Windows\ tree, exactly where would depend on how the system was
configured.

You may be able to recover the files using any of a number of file recovery
programs - I would suggest something like 'restoration'
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

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I have a ME system that has failed and I have removed the Hard Drive and am
accessing it in a USB external Hard Drive enclosure in an XP system in
order to retrieve some wanted data files.
I can access the desired My Documents files but cannot find a folder of
several hundred megs of photo images (all jpgs) that was on the Desktop,
Where should I expect to find them?
However I think that they are not actually visible anywhere, due to a
probable data corruption when the PC failed.
If this is so, it seems probable that the files are probably still
actually on the hard drive even though I can't see them.
What utility and/or technique could I use to try and retrieve them?
I know the name of the desired, but invisible, folder.
Any help would be appreciated.
Brian Tozer




 




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