Thanks Hugh, I'm afraid that it's longer than 30 days. I'd put in a new
hard drive 6 months ago after replacing the failed disk, Did a disk and
memory check; all ok. I've no real information and I work with Linux rather
than Windows so I'm completely lost. The laptop freezes on 1st boot so
using F11 i;m trying to get into the system to recover the files, but as I
said the only files on the system are the system files and the recyle bin
which has 9GB. I can't reset without losing the possible documents in the
bin. I have a win 10 pc, though don't use, except when printing Office docs
so I've no real experience in Windows, except from late 90's. The recovery
system will let me recover the OS but no files so I'm stuck.
Stephen

On 22 June 2016 at 00:19, Hugh Vandervoort <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> The Win10 upgrade doesn't delete any files, in my experience. You can roll
> back to Win7 any time in the first 30 days.
> http://www.thewindowsclub.com/rollback-from-windows-10
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Stephen McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, my neighbour's friend's son got upgraded to Win 10 by error. Believe
> > Win 10 was doing upgrades without asking. Anyway it's reset the system
> and
> > deleted the Win 7 files. Used a Linux cd to open system and no files
> except
> > 9GB in recycle bin, Can I recover this? Her tax files are in it and no
> > backup. First thing I say have you backed up? Any help is greatly
> > appreciated.
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> >
>
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