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re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me
Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 4:46 pm
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Posted by Falcon (13489 messages posted)


Most likely, your reinstallation of ME erased the contents of the My Documents and Desktop folders, as the Windows setup specifically states that you should back up your documents before upgrading (or did last time I had to install).

The Wereotter


On Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 4:19 pm, claire miller wrote:
>
>Yes, are probably right but how do I set about locating it ? I am now running in
>Me again and the folders that originally contained the data are still empty . Is
>it possible that during the upgrade the files may have been moved to another location
>as you suggested and after uninstallation of XP they failed to be restored to their
>original location ?
>


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re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (claire miller: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 4:19 pm)

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-data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (claire miller: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 3:42 pm)
-re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (Bob Cerelli: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 4:00 pm)
-re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (claire miller: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 4:07 pm)
-re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (Bob Cerelli: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 4:16 pm)
-re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (claire miller: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 4:19 pm)
*re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (Falcon: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 4:44 pm)
*re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (Falcon: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 4:46 pm)
*re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (Jazz: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 5:39 pm)
*re: data loss after XP Pro upgrade from Me (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Feb 25, 2004, 7:08 am)
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