I have hard drive that crashed and was running windows 7. I have a new drive, but need to get vital data off of old drive. I was successful in making a usb start up with ubuntu. It loads up and the drive is mounted under devices. The problem is that the files I need to get off the drive were stored on the windows desktop and when I select the desktop folder, it is empty. I can see all the other software and programs that were stored on the drive, but not these files.
Any help (in super simple terms, please) is greatly appreciated.
Thanks! Karl