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    • Charlie SamuelC
      Charlie Samuel
      last edited by

      Hello! So I recently reinstalled Windows 7 and I moved my notepad++ to my SSD so it didn’t get deleted… and it did. All of my saved notes are gone. I have a windows.old file but I’m not sure where I could find my old notepads. Can someone please help? Thank you!

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      • Claudia FrankC
        Claudia Frank @Charlie Samuel
        last edited by Claudia Frank

        @Charlie-Samuel

        I would try to use software like recuva
        in the hope that the new installation hasn’t overwritten the files.

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • Гурд ГурдГ
          Гурд Гурд
          last edited by Гурд Гурд

          press keys Win+R then write\paste
          CMD

          Type in cmd:
          tree c:\ | more

          If your windows.old is not a file but a catalog\folder (I don’t remember), do
          to write file names of c:\windows.old* and its subfolders containing “MICROSOFT”:
          dir c:\windows.old /s /b | find /i “MICROSOFT” >> %USERPROFILE%\DESKTOP\LOSTFILES.txt

          also to output in console all file names in that catalog recursively
          (recursively - i.e. all folder tree)
          for /R c:\windows.old %R in (*) do @ECHO %R

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