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Scafalon

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My Windows10 laptop refuses to boot, and after exhausting all possible methods and fixes I've come to the conclusion that I will need to reinstall. The issue is that I need my files.it wont boot in safe mode, won't refresh, won't do startup repair either.

I used a windows media usb thing to open command prompt and access notepad to open up my files to copy them, but theyre missing! They were all on my desktop. I can see my c drive(os) d drive(recovery) and this local disk (e) which is only about 500mb large. Ive set it to all files. That cant be right.Help please!
 
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Do you have enough room on the USB device to copy them off?

You do not need Notepad for any of this.

w/ command prompt open, you should do :

on the USB drive create a folder to copy off files
md myfiles

(goto the system drive assuming c:

c:

cd ../..

dir (this will list the root level folders and files)



(You should see a folder called Users)

cd users


cd <your username>

dir

copy *.* x:\myfiles

that should get it, If not, drill down and copy folder by folder...
 
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Scafalon

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Dude i tried that what you said . The only issue is that there is no directory with my usersname. C drive has AMD, Intel, swsetup, system.sav, and windows. That's it. The only drive with the useres folder is X:boot and as I previously mentioned that is only about 500mb large :(
 
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