Windows 10: Lost Dir on Windows 10

I believe I have a unique problem as I can find no information about it online and I'm not sure where else to post this.

Late last year I had problems with performance on my gaming PC, I had eventually found out that one of my RAM sticks wasn't functioning, only because I took it into Best Buy to get it looked at since I'm admittedly not the smartest with computers. Near the end of the diagnostic process, the technician reset the OS which somehow split my data into two "volumes", where I now on startup get a screen that tells me to select an OS, the choices being Windows volume 2 (the new OS that stripped all my data) and Windows volume 7 where I'm assuming all my old data is, but it is inaccessible. On the Volume 2 desktop I got a Lost Dir folder where my old data actually is but it is once again inaccessible. I have no idea what caused this and am completely lost, if anyone has any insight into this I'd be very grateful.

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dir Difficulties

I am getting the hang of this command set.

Maybe somebody know a work around that will list the three time stamps at one time.
Theoretically dir /TC /TA /TW.
dir will only show one of the three at one time.

To me it seems that the only way to get all three on a line is to run loop with output to file, then boiling down the three outputs to one line. Clumsy but maybe the only way to get the job done?

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

dir Difficulties

DIR uses whatever time definition you tell it to use. Following command would list all files and folders in X:\Downloads in order they have been created:

dir X:\Downloads /t:c

DIR is fully capable to sort files and folders. Following command would list all files in X:\Downloads, oldest first:

dir X:\Downloads /o:d

The minus sign before a parameter reverses the results, so the following command would list the same folder in reversed order, newest first:

dir X:\Downloads /o:-d

You can also combine switches. Following command would list all files and folders in X:\Downloads and all its subfolders (the /s switch), listing them in newest first based on time of file / folder creation:

dir X:\Downloads /s /o:-d /t:c