Appdata folder missing

%appdata% is the direct path to your appdata folder. You wont have a documents and settings for windows 7 as that is an XP thing. Try the "users" folder and then select your logon.

you looking under "Users"?

C:\Users\(users name)\AppData

That's what I'm saying - I have tried the users folder, double-clicked my username, and nothing is there. I can't find the appdata folder under my username even though I copied the HDD to an external file-for-file.

Can anyone help me figure this out?

How did you copy? the best way to do something like this is robocopy

I couldn't use robocopy but the way I used was touted online as a 100% effective copy.

The reason I couldn't use windows apps is due to a windows corruption - this is why I made a backup in the first place.

I used dos commands in cmd.exe and after making the copy I crosschecked the amount of files on my backup with the amount of files on my C: and they corresponded to the kilobyte (as well as numerically).

Since then, I have run the sfc /scannow command and it found errors, which it fixed automatically, but I still can't find appdata

Trying to access appdata through cmd.exe is also not working.

I have also fiddled around with permissions, but nothing seems to work.

I managed. Turns out my copy wasn't perfect after all!!!

So much for that technique!

What I did is I stuck my in SECOND backup, which I made using windows, and after unchecking the 'hide os' and 'show hidden', I found what I was looking for.

Thank you all, anyway!

glad you got it sorted, good job.