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I took my hard drive from an old laptop and downloaded it to my new laptop but can't find my old data. Any ideas how to retrie
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- Dec 2, 2009
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Where your 'My documents' type folders is stored depends ont he operating system the old laptop was using.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6083.windows-xp-folders-and-locations-vs-windows-7-and-vista.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6083.windows-xp-folders-and-locations-vs-windows-7-and-vista.aspx
- Nov 28, 2013
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Well I guess it was windows 2000 and my new laptop is running windows 8. Does that make a difference?
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