How do I find my pictures off a backup my pc made when restoring?

I have a gateway computer and I told it to restore and make a backup partition of my stuff. I want to go in and get my pictures and music I had on there but I cannot find it in the backup folder. Am I not looking correctly?

Hard question to answer without knowing more.

I assume you are using Windows.....

Did it make the backup on the SAME drive? If this is the case then it is probably as a seperate partition. If you main drive is called C: then your backup partition might well be D: in 'My Computer'

Have a look in My Computer and see what hard-drives are available. This is the first step to working out where your stuff has gone!

You could also try doing a search 'For Files and Folders' for all .mp3 or .jpeg files etc. This will scan all drives and you might be able to work out if your files are hidden there somewhere.

Just two suggestions, provide more info please.

HMM...

Sounds like you have done a windows recovery of some sort and it has backed up your program files for you but nothing else..

Do a search for .mp3 files (I assume you are using these) and see what comes up. It might take some time but it will find all the MP3's on your computer. If nothing comes up then the files have gone :(

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However, it could be that the partition is hidden....

Go to the 'Control Panel'

Then 'Administrative Tools'

Then load 'Computer Management'

Select 'Disk Management'

Find 'Disk 0' and count how many partitions are on it..

Do any say hidden? or anything unusual? Most normal partitions will be NTFS or possibly FAT32.

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I've never liked Gateway.. Always build my own.