Hey people,
I had a question about recovering (possibly) lost files. My computer crashed a couple weeks ago and I had to reformat the hard drive and do a clean install of windows 7.
Fortunately I backed up my user profile on an external hard drive before that happened. Unfortunately when I do a windows restore it only restores about half of the music, movie and document folders. The external drive shows that it has 130GB of data on it but only restores about 50GB.
I searched for some of the missing files on the external and it can't find them. I'm assuming that since the drive is showing an extra 80GB of data that it's not lost forever it's just not being accessed in the windows restore.
Is there any way to manually copy these files? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
I had a question about recovering (possibly) lost files. My computer crashed a couple weeks ago and I had to reformat the hard drive and do a clean install of windows 7.
Fortunately I backed up my user profile on an external hard drive before that happened. Unfortunately when I do a windows restore it only restores about half of the music, movie and document folders. The external drive shows that it has 130GB of data on it but only restores about 50GB.
I searched for some of the missing files on the external and it can't find them. I'm assuming that since the drive is showing an extra 80GB of data that it's not lost forever it's just not being accessed in the windows restore.
Is there any way to manually copy these files? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks