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Computer types? Help!?

  • Mar. 4th, 2009 at 6:59 PM
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I hope one of my techie-type friends has a clue, cause I sure don't.

My desktop croaked some time ago, as you know. The mother board died. A friend pulled the hard drive for me, which has been put into a RocketFish drive enclosure. It syncs with my laptop fine, and I can access it. The problem is this:


I cannot find ANY of my document files (things I've written) or ANY of my photography files (pictures I've taken). Some were saved in folders on the desktop; some were saved in folders in the "My Pictures" section. I cannot even find the damn things doing a .jpg search on the F: drive (the external RocketFish drive).


Where the hell do I look for my files??


Help?
  • Mood: confused

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[info]indie_andy wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2009 02:14 am (UTC)
Depending on what operating system you were using, your files will have been stored in different places on your hard drive. Windows XP (and before, to the best of my recollection) stored user documents in :\Windows\Profiles\\My Documents\. Anything on the desktop would be stored in :\Windows\Profiles\\Desktop\. Vista stores everything in a similar fashion, but in \Users\\. OSX and Linux do things differently again, but I'll assume you were on Windows. Hope this helps!
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[info]indie_andy wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2009 02:17 am (UTC)
OK, that didn't come out right. That'll teach me to make things look like html tags when they aren't. XP:

(drive letter):\Windows\Profiles\(username)\My Documents
(drive letter):\Windows\Profiles\(username)\My Pictures
(drive letter):\Windows\Profiles\(username)\Desktop


Vista:

(drive letter):\Users\(username)\Documents
(drive letter):\Users\(username)\Pictures
(drive letter):\Users\(username)\Desktop
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[info]paravati wrote:
Mar. 6th, 2009 06:01 am (UTC)
It could also depend on the kind of enclosure you have. If your enclosure doesn't support the size of the drive, it won't "Read" the entire contents of the drive. I made the mistake of putting a 500 gig drive into an enclosure meant for a 250 gig drive and freaked out, thinking there was something wrong with the drive! There wasn't; I just had to swap enclosures.

That being said, I just threw away a Rocketfish enclosure that was less than 6 months old. I'm not impressed with their products at all.
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[info]crazyabouther wrote:
Apr. 7th, 2009 11:14 am (UTC)
My prefered method is to plug the drive into another pc. I transfered lots of stuff that way. It also assumes all the data on your drive was "ok" before you had the "meltdown".
:-)
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