# Windows ME question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-me-question/540813>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 26, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-me-question/540813 "2010-05-26T13:49:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-me-question/540813/1 "2010-05-26T13:49:57Z")

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I have a full copy of a hard drive with Windows ME that wouldn’t boot. Where are the My Documents and Desktop folders in Windows ME?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-me-question/540813/2 "2010-05-26T20:28:43Z")

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Should just be C:\My Documents on Win9x/ME, If I recall correctly.

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-me-question/540813/3 "2010-05-26T23:00:15Z")

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Also look under **C:\Windows\Profiles**.

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-me-question/540813/4 "2010-05-27T00:09:42Z")

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For 98 the desktop is C:\windows\desktop, I don’t know if they moved it for ME or not, I never ran ME.

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**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-me-question/540813/5 "2010-05-27T05:45:25Z")

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For some reason these folders do not seem to exist. I installed the drive on my Windows 7 machine and copied everything. Why were those folders not copied?

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-me-question/540813/6 "2010-05-27T09:12:30Z")

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> [@Number](#):
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> Also look under **C:\Windows\Profiles**.

Which is where things are if you have multiple users installed, and each have their own set of documents. Each user has their own subfolder, so the path to the two places should be

```auto

C:\WINDOWS\Profiles\*username*\My Documents
C:\WINDOWS\Profiles\*username*\Desktop

```

If you can’t find them there, just search for the folders themselves throughout the whole hard drive. Also, it shouldn’t matter, but make sure hidden folders are visible.

Of course, if the thing won’t boot, it could be corrupted, and those folders may have been corrupted, too. Usually the folders still show up, but I’ve been unable to actually get the files off before.