Vista - Used Easy Transfer Companion -- didn't work

I used WETC while installing Vista on an XP box. I had backed up most things
but missed a few, namely some files that were saved to a user's desktop. WETC
managed to copy several apps, but no old data appears. After reading several
threads, I'm beginning to believe that using only Companion was a mistake --
but it said it was a COMPANION to WET, to help make things easier somehow.
There are a lot of empty file folders where there should be user data.

Anyway, is there a chance to get any data back? The Vista install didn't
seem to reformat the HDD -- is it possible to use a file recovery program on
the disk? There must have been a big image file saved to the external drive
-- what's it called and where is it? Is there any way to get anything out of
that?

"Ronk" <Ronk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>I used WETC while installing Vista on an XP box. I had backed up most
>things
> but missed a few, namely some files that were saved to a user's desktop.
> WETC
> managed to copy several apps, but no old data appears. After reading
> several
> threads, I'm beginning to believe that using only Companion was a
> mistake --
> but it said it was a COMPANION to WET, to help make things easier somehow.
> There are a lot of empty file folders where there should be user data.
>
> Anyway, is there a chance to get any data back? The Vista install didn't
> seem to reformat the HDD -- is it possible to use a file recovery program
> on
> the disk? There must have been a big image file saved to the external
> drive
> -- what's it called and where is it? Is there any way to get anything out
> of
> that?

Look in the windows.old folder. All that was on the drive will be in that
folder. I think you need to run WET first to get the data and settings then
do WETC for the programs. WETC doesn't do both.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]