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I am trying to recover my GF's four-year architecture work (assignments and designs) from her recently gone-for-good Asus N73 laptop running Windows 10. I have detached the hard drive from the laptop and connected it to an external hard drive case.
Here's what I have done to get the data back:
- Under the old C: drive, under
Users\Administrator
, I could see all the default Document folders. But according to my girlfriend, quite a few documents are missing. - I right-clicked the user profile folder and hit properties. I found that the total disk space used by this folder is much bigger than all the visible files and directories added up together.
- While copying the "Administrator" folder it is asking me the for permission to copy files with some weird username prefix.
- I tried to boot the OS from the old hard drive by selecting the USB boot option from my BIOS. The OS starts with Windows 10, but still I could not see all the files that mentioned by my girlfriend under C:\Users
What have I done wrong? What other steps I have missed? If the documents were not encrypted, why I could not see them in the place they should be?