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Where are my files from Windows 11? (swg-empire.de)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I migrated my wife's PC after a forceful Windows 11 update to Linux. I made a backup of her files by doing an rsync of almost the complete C: drive onto an external drive formatted with exFAT. This was a grave mistake.

After the Linux installation we noticed that several files were missing and older files were back. My current guess is that I was somehow copying from an old snapshot instead of the current state.

I rsynced everything except for the Windows folder. Does anyone know if there is any chance of getting our filea back? Amd what actually happened?

Edit: After several weeks I finally found the answer. There are two drives in the laptop. But Linux didn't see the NVME drive because it does not support "RST with Optane". As soon as I switched the SATA mode over to AHCI I could see the system drive with the lost files.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now I just have to find out what her login data is. Because she doesn't remember making a Microsoft account. Maybe I can find the username somewhere in AppData.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Go to Settings > Accounts. Everything should be there.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not possible. Windows is gone.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's linked to an email address. Search the inbox of whatever email might have been used for an email from Microsoft and then try recovering the password online.