Hello, I'm new here... I usually read lots of forums to learn and also solve my problems, and this is one of my favorites, but today I decided to join, because I'm in trouble with my laptop but I will stick around even if I can't solve my issue.
To make my story short, I have a laptop with windows 7 i believe "ultimate" 64 b.
Windows failed to boot up, it froze before the login page, since I was planning on installing to format and install a fresh copy of Win 7 home, I thought it was a good idea of just "reinstall" Windows 7 home, copy my files, then format and do a fresh install.
This is the part where everything failed, the installation did not go thru, moved the old system files to "Windows.old", and made a new "Windows folder".
Ok... great... I can't continue the installation because I only had about 6 gb left on the hard drive, so right now I just want to copy my folder (c:\users\USERNAME\*) and then proceed with the installation, but that folder is GONE! I tried using Spotmau , backtrack, a "windows xp live cd" etc..
nothing works... I'm guessing my files were some how "encrypted" or something, is there any way to retrieve my files? I'm sure they are somewhere...
Luckily for me most of the important files are backed up, (cloud), but I still want to access lots of music and the most important folder of an organized adult computer user.... the Desktop folder..
Thanks in advance.
To make my story short, I have a laptop with windows 7 i believe "ultimate" 64 b.
Windows failed to boot up, it froze before the login page, since I was planning on installing to format and install a fresh copy of Win 7 home, I thought it was a good idea of just "reinstall" Windows 7 home, copy my files, then format and do a fresh install.
This is the part where everything failed, the installation did not go thru, moved the old system files to "Windows.old", and made a new "Windows folder".
Ok... great... I can't continue the installation because I only had about 6 gb left on the hard drive, so right now I just want to copy my folder (c:\users\USERNAME\*) and then proceed with the installation, but that folder is GONE! I tried using Spotmau , backtrack, a "windows xp live cd" etc..
nothing works... I'm guessing my files were some how "encrypted" or something, is there any way to retrieve my files? I'm sure they are somewhere...
Luckily for me most of the important files are backed up, (cloud), but I still want to access lots of music and the most important folder of an organized adult computer user.... the Desktop folder..
Thanks in advance.