had to reboot and save files, where are they?

[katiecarol]

my laptop wasn't accepting my password so as the only computer administrator i went into the system restore/reboot. i had 3 options and the one i chose said it was non-destructive and would save all the files i had into another file on the computer, while setting all other settings back to as if i'd just brought the laptop. now i have it up and running again how do i find the file with all my other stuff in? it's not in my documents or my pictures, can anyone shed any light on this for me?

[Maydup]

Might be worth looking in Start/Computer/Recovery(D)

[Buenchico]

Try running a wildcard search (with an asterisk instead of a file name) for each type of file that you're looking for. For example, searching for *.jpg will find all jpeg images on your computer. Looking for *.doc will find all Word files (unless they were created in Word 2007 or later, in which case search for *.docx).

Chris

[AlBags]

Is there a separate partition (recovery partition) to look in.
Explore with Windows Explorer.

[SlackAlice]

Possible re-install, have you got a folder called 'Windows old'.

If so, you may find your files in there.