How to view the personal files on the laptop SSD

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Last year my laptop stopped working and I had to revert to my old laptop I had lying around in the wardrobe. Finally In the last couple of weeks I ordered a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter so that I can finally recover my most important files, like photo's, videos, old school work and game saves. I finally got the adapter in the mail today and I got out my 320GB SSD that was In my broken laptop, than plugged it into my current laptop with the adapter to find my files and take them off. But when I tried to do this, I couldn't find ANY of the files created by myself! The SSD Isn't dead either because I still have all the normal folders like Program Files, Program Files (X86) and Users etc in the SSD.

So I've tried looking through all the folders I could (even the ones that obviously wouldn't have my stuff in it) And couldn't find ANYTHING, even when I access the Users folder, The only user in there Is called "Public" and it doesn't have anything useful in it, it just has the Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos folders in it but they contain nothing. From googling it, I figured out how to view hidden files, but when I un-hid the files, all the new files and folders weren't helpful at all. There was a new user folder that appeared called "Default" and in that folder I found the Roaming folder which is usually where Minecraft Saves and other folders are stored, but when I go in there, the only folder in there is called "Microsoft" and there is also nothing useful in there and the .Minecraft folder is nowhere to be seen.

So my question is does anyone know how I can find the files I'm looking for? I'm extremely desperate at this point to get my data back. Thank you so much If you can help in any way. My old laptop used Windows 10 and my current laptop also uses windows 10.

Best Answer

I'm guessing you've already tried searching but do try: fastfilefinder (admin mode) if u remember any names of files you had just search for it also try enabling 'show hidden files' it seems quite odd that ur files are missing, are you sure your laptop doesn't have multiple drives or something, maybe it has an nvme hidden somewhere?

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