>I just spent a good portion of the day migrating (moved - ouch) my data
>from
> my XP machine to a new Vista desktop. After returning from lunch the
> monitor
> wouldn't come out of low-power mode. I performed a reset, using the power
> button, and everything is now GONE!!! The bad thing (as alluded above) is
> that I moved the data from the old workstation, so it's now GONE. Help!!
>
> Why does Vista boot to this default profile?
> Your data is very likely to be "somewhere" on the target machine, so
> preserve and you should find it once you get the OS up (just don't
> reformat!).
>
> "Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:967FDEC3-1461-4A77-84CB-1BC17E820525@microsoft.com...> >I just spent a good portion of the day migrating (moved - ouch) my data>
> >from
> > my XP machine to a new Vista desktop. After returning from lunch the
> > monitor
> > wouldn't come out of low-power mode. I performed a reset, using the power
> > button, and everything is now GONE!!! The bad thing (as alluded above) is
> > that I moved the data from the old workstation, so it's now GONE. Help!!
> >
> > Why does Vista boot to this default profile?
>
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