ComputerBB

Alright, first off, I don't know a great deal about computers.. but I know enough to get alone quite happily. Basically, my old motherboard died (don't ask what make/type, it was, for I have no idea) so I had to install a new one. Yadda yadda, basically, the jist of it all is that my computer is now an empty slate. No music files, no word documents - nothing that was previously on it, is on it now. However, I've been told that those files are somewhere on my computer, yet find this hard to believe as even though I've ran a search through my computer, it came up with nothing. Am I just holding onto flase hope, and everything has really gone forever? Comments and suggestions welcome gladly..

When you replaced the motherboard did you have to do anything with the hard drive? If you just transferred the hard drive, without formatting, or reinstalling the O/S the files should be there.

Didn't touch the hard drive, and it's still the same O/S.. but I swear, I cannot find any of the old files, at all. I don't understand it.

Do you know if you had a drive overlay on the hard drive? Some of the older motherboards had BIOS limitations and couldn't recognize larger hard drives. So now if that is so, you will have to figgure out what that setting was in the old BIOS and set the new BIOS the same. Do you remember if you used a software to instal the drive in the old computer, if so what software? A link for you to look at http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=http ... ln%3den-gb

Do you know if you had a drive overlay on the hard drive? Some of the older motherboards had BIOS limitations and couldn't recognize larger hard drives. So now if that is so, you will have to figgure out what that setting was in the old BIOS and set the new BIOS the same. Do you remember if you used a software to instal the drive in the old computer, if so what software? A link for you to look at http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=http ... ln%3den-gb