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You could try AVG Undelete to recover files that you recently deleted. However, I believe that your Windows upgrade shouldn't have wiped out your music files. Perhaps you could provide more information on the Windows installation you had used for the upgrade.
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You could try AVG Undelete to recover files that you recently deleted. However, I believe that your Windows upgrade shouldn't have wiped out your music files. Perhaps you could provide more information on the Windows installation you had used for the upgrade.

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Just restore the music from your backups.
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Just restore the music from your backups.

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when u say you did a search??<br />
for *.mp3 on system root (c:) drive<br />
how much music are we talking?<br />
gigabytes?<br />
what did the search return?<br />
did you perform WET (Windows Easy Transfer) before the upgrade?<br />
this moves all your 'stuff' to another location?
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when u say you did a search??
for *.mp3 on system root (c:) drive
how much music are we talking?
gigabytes?
what did the search return?
did you perform WET (Windows Easy Transfer) before the upgrade?
this moves all your 'stuff' to another location?

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Hi.<br />
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Before we all start guessing, I would ask you to please inform us whether this was really an upgrade installation (an installation that keeps settings, programs and files) or if you just called it like this but did a clean install.
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Hi.

Before we all start guessing, I would ask you to please inform us whether this was really an upgrade installation (an installation that keeps settings, programs and files) or if you just called it like this but did a clean install.

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actually found files hidden in old profile. &nbsp;extensions were renamed for whatever reason
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actually found files hidden in old profile.  extensions were renamed for whatever reason

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@TechyT - Thanks. I am glad you got your music back. Good news! <br />
... Thinkpads_User
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@TechyT - Thanks. I am glad you got your music back. Good news!
... Thinkpads_User

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Upgraded from 7 to 8 and rebooted. Now can't find any of the music files. &nbsp;Did a search. &nbsp;Is there a free program or method to recover all the music ?
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Upgraded from 7 to 8 and rebooted. Now can't find any of the music files.  Did a search.  Is there a free program or method to recover all the music ?

Upgraded from win7 to win8 lost music

Windows 7 is an operating system from Microsoft. Features include multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, referred to as the Superbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements.

Windows 7

Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, with an emphasis on improving its user experience on tablets. In particular, these changes included a touch-optimized Windows shell based on Microsoft's "Metro" design language, the Start screen, a new platform for developing apps with an emphasis on touchscreen input, integration with online services, support for USB 3.0, Advanced Format hard drives, near field communications, and cloud computing. Additional security features were introduced, such as built-in antivirus software, integration with Microsoft SmartScreen phishing filtering service and support for UEFI Secure Boot on supported devices with UEFI firmware.