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Hi all, I am formating my friends harddrive and currently I have it hooked to my computer but I am running Windows from my own system. Where do I find the desktop on this master boot harddrive so I can copy the files he needs and then format it, thank you

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Unless he kept his files on the desktop it'll be no use to you, but you find it in [drive letter]/users/[name]/desktop

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Go to:

- Computer

- your friends HDD

- Win XP: Documents and settings / Win 7,8,10: Users

- account name

- desktop

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10 minutes ago, Funtoink63 said:

Go to:

- Computer

- your friends HDD

- Win XP: Documents and settings / Win 7,8,10: Users

- account name

- desktop

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Just now, LUUD18 said:

Who the heck still uses Windows XP 

Well, he didn't specified what OS was on that HDD, so I thought I would include it just in case.

Also, I still have XP on my netbook, so I guess me.

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Thank you for the replies, I can't seem to get permission to get into his USER, I click his name and it asks for permission so I click yes obviously and then it just loads the green bar but it never really does anything.

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5 hours ago, Sabron said:

Thank you for the replies, I can't seem to get permission to get into his USER, I click his name and it asks for permission so I click yes obviously and then it just loads the green bar but it never really does anything.

That bar usually takes a long time to finish loading. 

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Hi all and I managed to skip the long time by going onto UBUNTU and doing it from there so I have the file but when I copied it over back to his computer he said he could not see it even though it takes up disk space? How do I fix this. He runs windows 10 now and says the file isnt there but I remember copying it over by adding his harddrive to my computer and copying it.

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