Recovering files that existed after doing a clean install of W2K

I had to perform a clean install of W2K last night and all 
of the .doc, .xls files were gone. Is there a way to 
recover these files ?  If so what folder are they under ?

If you formatted the drive before the install, they are gone.
doc and xls files are generally created by the user.  
Have you searched the entire drive for *.doc and *.xls files?
If these files were in you My Documents folder and you did not re-format 
the drive, they should be under Documents and Settings\<original user 
name>\My Documents.
Joe Griffin [MS]
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I had to perform a clean install of W2K last night and all 
of the .doc, .xls files were gone. Is there a way to 
recover these files ?  If so what folder are they under ?

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\par doc and xls files are generally created by the user.  
\par Have you searched the entire drive for *.doc and *.xls files?
\par If these files were in you My Documents folder and you did not re-format the drive, they should be under Documents and Settings\\<original user name>\\My Documents.
\par Joe Griffin [MS]
\par -- 
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\par I had to perform a clean install of W2K last night and all 
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