where my files at!?!?!?

[Warren_5]

Sooo, awhile ago i installed Microsoft office and when i did i installed it to my storage drive, when installed it i forgot to give it a folder and data on the drive was sent to a ''Recovery" folder that i did not create, and that was ok, i could still access my files and so i learnt to live with it .... and then today i decided to a clean install of windows because i kept getting errors and windows update was stuck trying to download a 50MB update.. so i made myself a bootable win10 usb and formatted my hard drives as per-usual and everything was just dandy until i checked my drives and noticed said 'Recovery' folder was missing, i made sure that the show hidden files/folders option was enable and still nothing... so i decided to the a search for specific files and folders using windows search and alas they were found, but, i can not access parent folders or the 'Recovery" folder, i can only access what is in the folders through win search and every time i try to access the parent folder a lovely little dialog box pops up to tell me that said directory is inaccessible and access is denied.

and yes i have tried recuva, wich tells me the files i want to recover are unrecoverable even though i can still open them.


so please would the god of all things ugly in windows OS please help a brutha out.

 

[Neur0nauT]

Sooo, awhile ago i installed Microsoft office and when i did i installed it to my storage drive, when installed it i forgot to give it a folder and data on the drive was sent to a ''Recovery" folder that i did not create, and that was ok, i could still access my files and so i learnt to live with it .... and then today i decided to a clean install of windows because i kept getting errors and windows update was stuck trying to download a 50MB update.. so i made myself a bootable win10 usb and formatted my hard drives as per-usual and everything was just dandy until i checked my drives and noticed said 'Recovery' folder was missing, i made sure that the show hidden files/folders option was enable and still nothing... so i decided to the a search for specific files and folders using windows search and alas they were found, but, i can not access parent folders or the 'Recovery" folder, i can only access what is in the folders through win search and every time i try to access the parent folder a lovely little dialog box pops up to tell me that said directory is inaccessible and access is denied.

and yes i have tried recuva, wich tells me the files i want to recover are unrecoverable even though i can still open them.


so please would the god of all things ugly in windows OS please help a brutha out.

Unless you've managed to backup your C:\users\yourname\ directory, then your "recovery" files that you speak of are probably gone after you've reformatted the drive. This "recovery" folder, If I'm not mistaken is referring to the temp document location which can be explained here.

I think you may have wiped any trace of them with the reformat though. Good luck anyway!

 

[Godloki]

Right click on the parent folder and click properties. Go and take ownership of the folder and then change the security permissions to "everyone" for security. Then try to access the folder again.