ARRRGGGGHHH!!!!! need help with finding files after reinstall of WinXP Pro

[GasX]

I had to reinstall windows and lost a lot of data on my C: drive. Where do I need to look to see if I still have my Outlook files?

 

[Twista]

did you use clean or full install and did you format to ntfs or fat32 during the install if so your information is gone, but the safe thing you should of done is export your OL messages to a slave drive or something similar. Maybe someone knows a data recovery program but i dont sooooooo keep checking back.


GL, Mwilding

 

[GasX]

I installed w/o formatting C:

 

[NogginBoink]

c:\documents and settings\youroldusername

When you created a new OS and logged on, even if you used the same user name, Windows looked on the hard drive and saw that there was already an unknown user profile stored there, so it put your user profile in a different directory.

Next time, make backups before doing something like that!

(And you're not going to have read permissions to your old profile under the new OS. You'll have to take ownership of the files there and give yourself read permissions.)