system recovery for pc Help Please!!!!

i recently did a system recovery on my computer and it said it would save the files that were created by me but i cant seem to find them i have done the following things
1.)i click on "my computer"and clicked on the the "c"hard drive to look there but nothing
2.)searched using the windows search feature on that come on every windows pc

thanks in advance

By recovery, do you mean that you re-installed Windows?
Sometimes when you reinstall, it can save your files. Other times, it cannot. This will just depend on if you chose to format or not, and what OS you had.

have u checked the desktop itself?

yeah i t reinstalled it putting it back to when i first bought it i always had windows on it

what do you mean search the desktop??

If you recover it back to when you first bought it, all your files are gone.

but it shows that my hard drive only has 6 g.b left so im guessin it still there?

Ok, open Windows Explorer and and see if there is a folder on the C drive called windows.old

If there is, it should be inside.

yeah it wasn't there, but my friend just told me to search my hard drive using an external hard drive

Why would you need to perform a search using your external hard drive? YOu can use the search feature in windows.

windows is prevents me from entering certain folders

thanks for the help it turns out that my computer didnt end up saving the files