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    Windows.old innaccessible

    Unfotunately I don't have a backup. It's actually a favor I'm trying to do for a colleague. His kids must have gotten a virus and he had some important files on here.Recuva is at %34 deep scan 2million files found! Nothing is showing up as recoverable yet. Fingers crossed!
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    Windows.old innaccessible

    Hi again,I'm running a deepscan of recuva as we speak. Looks like this will take a while. However, I did do a preliminary quick scan and it found 500,000 files none of which it could recover? Is that weird?Thanks!
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    Windows.old innaccessible

    Thanks Brink ! It does appear that this might be the case. I will try and DL recuva and see if that will get the job done.
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    Windows.old innaccessible

    Hi!Thanks for the reply! I took ownership through an elevated command prompt and have ensured I have the required access. Perhaps I don't really understand the problem.The original OS got a virus so I reinstalled the OS on the same HD. I can see documents and settings in windows.old but when I...
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    Windows.old innaccessible

    Hi I'm working on a friends computer who got a virus. I reinstalled windows on the same HD and it created a file called windows.old which I understand contains the files he needs. There is about 200gB of the data in there that I can't seem to access. I've used an elevated command prompt to...
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