XP desktop data loss

[shards]

XP desktop data loss





Hello all, I have some important lost photos to find.


It all started with a new computer upgrade.


Old computer was running XP with photos on the desktop 1TB drive with partition

The new computer upgrade is running windows  7 with a 2 TB drive no partition


Okay I plug in my old 1TB drive as a extra drive for data only but have no access to

my old windows desktop files at all.

It comes up as with a size of 292 GB in total with 12 GB free that is true.

But when opening the drive to access files there is only  9.13 GB to access.


There was no issues with the old drive while running under XP.

The only hardware I kept on the upgrade was my computer case.


I am missing lots of family photos so any help would be fantastic :]

[Lisa_maree]

Hi

When you were booting into XP were you using a logon with password ?. If so the files in your profile will not be visible under windows. You could try parted magic and boot from that CD and use the file manager to browse the drive. Look for the pictures in Documents and settings\"username"\Desktop.

Parted Magic is available from here http://partedmagic.com/doku.php

[shards]

Thank you kindly I will give this a try 

[patio]

Take Ownership of files/folders in XP...

[shards]

Hi

When you were booting into XP were you using a logon with password ?. If so the files in your profile will not be visible under windows. You could try parted magic and boot from that CD and use the file manager to browse the drive. Look for the pictures in Documents and settings\"username"\Desktop.

Parted Magic is available from here http://partedmagic.com/doku.php

wow    thank you Lisa your helpful information has worked, a very nice program too I thought

due to my old burner is not sata I used a downloaded  tool to extract the ISO to my USB stick and boot from there through the mother boards bios selection

family photos are back      lets pop the champagne

[shards]

Take Ownership of files/folders in XP...

thank you Patio for a very direct clever solution

I tried this after the first method once I had backup files 

[patio]

You're more than Welcome.
Glad you are fixed up...