Windows Vista Recovery partition problems with Vista

This probably is not the right forum for this post so please let me know of a proper place to post this.

I just did a complete win vista home premium recovery on my daughters HP Pavillion dv6000. I used the recovery method that HP provides from their dedicated partition. My problem is that just before we started the recovery my daughter found some more files that she wanted to save to reinstall later. We didnt have any way to back these up so I made a "MY Docs" folder on the partion recovery D:drive and copied everything to this folder, thinking I would be able to copy them back after the recovery. I created this folder directly under the HP recovery D: drive just as the Recovery folder was done. After completing the recovery and also doing SP 1 & 2 I went to this HP Recovery D: drive to retrieve these files. The folder was not there anymore. After searching a little I found a new folder "$RECYCLE.BIN" as the first folder shown followed my several other folders with lavender colored icons in front of each. (Never seen this type of icon before) One of these folders is the folder I made up "MY Docs" When I try and open it up it shows me an HP Icon and a warning that this is a recovery partrition. But if I right clik it and clik properties it shows me there are 1337 files and 149 folders just as I copied them there.with the size as 866MB. This complete Recovery drive is 13G and still has 1G of free space.
Can somebody tell me how I might access this folder to retrieve the files. Needless to say but my daughter is really pixxxxxxd at me for screwing this up. I was able to copy this folder to my desktop where I thought I could work on it but all i get is the HP Icon with the partition warning.

 

Nothing should have been put on "D" where the recovery was at. It is dedicated for that. I am not sure how to get those files you saved there. Personally I would have waited and got a thumb drive or CD's or DVD's to put them on.

 

Try going into "Folder Options" and select to show hidden files and system files. If your recovery partition is not protected with security software you should be able to recover your files.

 

I did the same thing, having 4 hard drives I assumed the computer I was working on also had a backup drive (my husband's computer). So I made the mistake of backing up to his recovery drive. My recovery partition was protected with PC Angel. The following post shows how to disable PC Angel and recover your files. In the future I will be sure I do not make that mistake again.

My solution for retrieving my files can be found http://www.windowsbbs.com/windows-vista/103398-viewing-protected-recovery-partition.html

 

thanX!!!
I will give this a try tomorrow.

 

recovery problems w/vista

Well no luck !!
I manualy took ownership of the folder with success. But I still couldnt do anything with the folder.
As near as I can tell I dont have PC Angel so that didnt work.
Anybody got any other ideas.
I guess I need to say here the reason this problem has strung out so long is that my daughter took the darn computer out of state for a few months so I didnt have access to it. Thanx for keeping this open for me for so long.