Our household recently had two laptops go down, one with a bad motherboard, one with a bad hard drive. So, I McGuyver'd a solution by putting the good hard drive into the laptop with the good motherboard. The final product would boot but wouldn't load windows, even in safe mode, so I booted from the Windows 7 upgrade CD. Now I have a perfectly running version of Windows 7, but can't access any of the old files on the hard drive. I would accept that they are gone, except that My Computer tells me that my various drives and partitions have less than 100% space available, even though there are no accessible files there.
Can I still access those files?
Can I still access those files?