I recently removed a hard drive from an older laptop - Windows 7 I think, and put it in an external case intending to use it for backups as I've done with hard drives in the past.
This time I can only find "My Music" and not "My documents" or "My pictures". Can anyone tell me where I can find these files?
Laptop Hard Drives
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Ernie
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Laptop Hard Drives
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Re: Laptop Hard Drives
Did it have a secondary drove installed? Often the user files are re-directed to the secondary drive (most commonly done when the primary drive is an SSD).Ernie wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 1:43 pm I recently removed a hard drive from an older laptop - Windows 7 I think, and put it in an external case intending to use it for backups as I've done with hard drives in the past.
This time I can only find "My Music" and not "My documents" or "My pictures". Can anyone tell me where I can find these files?
The actual location of your user files is usually (Windows default) at Users\{USER NAME}\. You might also set the File Explorer (Windows Explorer in Win 7) to show hidden files. (The folders you mention generally are NOT hidden, but it's possible.)
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Personal heritage & general theological viewpoint: conservative Mennonite Brethren.