Question about 'How do I uninstall Windows?'
Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 9:50 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by SRJ
(6 messages posted)
How to get back My Documents files lost while upgrading from Windows ME to XP Pro?
Windows XP professional while upgrading the Windows ME caused
system hanging/failure in the very last one minute of its upgrading
installation process. The message displayed: 1 minute left, deleting temp files.
Upon this message becoming eternal, I
had no choice but to unplug the electric power cord to reboot the computer;
the upgrading installation got stuck again at the same stage. As a result of
the repeated failure of the XP Professional to 100% complete the upgrade installation
over the Windows ME in the default directory called Windows, all my .doc and
.xls files of My Documents directory were lost although backup.cab
596,074 kb and BOOT.CAB were created by the XP Pro installation in a
directory called Undo. Someone suggested this solution, "Click on Start |
control panel | add or remove programs | highlight remove windows XP| click
ok. That's it." but this suggested solution works only when there is 100%
complete installation to upgrade existing ME.
Not only the contents of My Documents containing the folders of My
Documents, My Music, and My Pictures but also the contents of Desktop that I
used to see in Windows ME have vanished.
Using WinZip, I have extracted all contents from BACKUP.CAB in a seaparate
directory on my drive C. I also have BOOT.CAB, and Winzip shows me that it
contains several files including delfiles.txt size:1,459,798, autochk.exe,
moved.txt, and deldirs.txt. I had in My Documents folder many .doc and .xls
files; I do not find any of them. While reading said delfiles.txt, I find
the following entry which gives the name of Abooknew .doc file I am looking
for :
C:\Documents and Settings\srj\Recent\Abooknew.doc.lnk
It appears that all my files under My Documents were deleted by the XP pro
installer.
Currently I have put in a new 60 GB hard
disk with two partitions: C drive for freshly installed Windows ME and E drive for
freshly installed Windows XP pro under a dual boot system; the hard disk previously
called C drive (on which I tried to upgrade from ME to XP pro) has now become D drive.
Does anyone know how to get back all my .doc and .xls files from My Documents file
that might be hiding somewhere on my current D drive?
Thanks for your help.
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