Windows 10: Failed Windows 10 upgrade, where are data files stored?

Discus and support Failed Windows 10 upgrade, where are data files stored? in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hi, Trying to help out a friend who has lost all of his data after a Windows 10 upgrade failure (power was lost to the machine during upgrade). I... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by steveotter, Dec 3, 2015.

  1. STEVEOTTER
    steveotter Win User

    Failed Windows 10 upgrade, where are data files stored?


    Hi,

    Trying to help out a friend who has lost all of his data after a Windows 10 upgrade failure (power was lost to the machine during upgrade).

    I am not trying to fix his machine, my main concern is to recover all of his data.

    I have removed the hard drive and have in in a caddy, but the data files are not where I expect them to be. In the Users folder, all the folders (Documents, Desktop etc) are empty.

    Any ideas where I can find the data?

    Thank-you

    :)
     
    steveotter, Dec 3, 2015
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  2. MSMANE
    msmane Win User

    upgrade to win 10

    Dear friends,

    Pease tell me where is win 10 downloaded file/ data saved in laptop ?

    I hav tried 10 times to upgrade each time it shows various errors & fails. On each upgrade I download 3 gb data thus nearly ************30 gb downloaded in 50 hrs ************ I'm fainted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Please help me.

    S.Mane
     
    msmane, Dec 3, 2015
    #2
  3. WHERE ARE MY FILES
    Where are my files Win User
    Where are my files?

    Noticed none of my personal files were in This PC after all updates from Windows. I reverted to a previous build and there it all was again. Hope that helps someone.
     
    Where are my files, Dec 3, 2015
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  4. PAULSALTER
    paulsalter Win User

    Failed Windows 10 upgrade, where are data files stored?

    Hi
    Welcome to the forum

    Only other possible place I can think if is in the C:\windows.old folder, you might find the data in here
     
    paulsalter, Dec 3, 2015
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  5. STEVEOTTER
    steveotter Win User
    Hi, thanks.

    unfortunately there is not a windows.old folder. The whole of the C drive is now only 1Gb in size!

    The D drive is named recovery, The E drive is named HP Tools and the F drive is named System (and contains one folder named BOOT)
     
    steveotter, Dec 3, 2015
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  6. PAULSALTER
    paulsalter Win User
    They sound like the recovery partitions

    I know there are ways to try and recover data from the drive, unfortunately this is not something I know much about
    Hopefully someone else who know more about this will be along later to help you out with some software options
     
    paulsalter, Dec 3, 2015
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  7. SONICBLUE
    SonicBlue Win User
    Ouch! Doesn't sound good if the C: is only 1 gb.
     
    SonicBlue, Dec 3, 2015
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  8. STEVEOTTER
    steveotter Win User

    Failed Windows 10 upgrade, where are data files stored?

    I am hoping it is moved somewhere else during the process
     
    steveotter, Dec 3, 2015
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  9. ZTRUKER
    Ztruker Win User
    Sounds like file system corruption to me.
    Try running chkdsk /f against the drive, see if it can fix the problem.
     
    Ztruker, Apr 4, 2018
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