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Donna Stewart40 said:HELP PLEASE!!!! I just got my laptop back. It used to have Windows XP installed, but now it’s been replaced with Windows 7. The problem is, I can't find any of my old files that were saved on the laptop... my photos, music, videos, documents :-(((( Did everything just disappear, or is it hidden somewhere somewhere else?????
If you're running Windows 7 now, there might be a folder on your C: drive labeled "old." Take a look there first. If nothing turns up, you might want to try using Recuva..☕
Hello.
To put it briefly: if you aren't working with a partitioned drive—meaning one broken down into multiple sections—then everything really just comes down to the total capacity of the hard drive itself. That’s when these kinds of issues tend to crop up. If someone went ahead and wiped the drive through a full format without having separate partitions set up, there's a high probability you've lost everything. However, there are still ways to handle this. I'd suggest downloading a program called Recuva from the web.
It is a modest little program, but don't let that fool you—it packs quite a punch. It’s designed to recover deleted files, and it can even pull data back from disks that have been completely formatted. Good luck out there.