Lost My Documents Folder

[Finnian]

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I had a serious crash with windows xp (SP2) last night that resulted in
having to reinstall Windows XP (it wouldn't repair, wouldn't let me
partition and wouldn't let me install windows into a different
directory - was crashing for anything but a full reinstall).

As a result of this, I've lost access to the my documents folder of my
original user profile. Moreover, it shows as being 0 bytes in size,
except the total size of my HDD has not been reduced.

Can anyone kindly suggest how to recover the mass of stuff I had in the
folder?


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Finnian

 

[Guest]

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HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q308421

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Mark L. Ferguson
FAQ for Windows Antispy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"Finnian" <Finnian.1r0zpn@pcbanter.net> wrote in message news:Finnian.1r0zpn@pcbanter.net...
>
> I had a serious crash with windows xp (SP2) last night that resulted in
> having to reinstall Windows XP (it wouldn't repair, wouldn't let me
> partition and wouldn't let me install windows into a different
> directory - was crashing for anything but a full reinstall).
>
> As a result of this, I've lost access to the my documents folder of my
> original user profile. Moreover, it shows as being 0 bytes in size,
> except the total size of my HDD has not been reduced.
>
> Can anyone kindly suggest how to recover the mass of stuff I had in the
> folder?
>
>
> --
> Finnian