Originally Posted by Plankton

They're more than likely still there, you just needed to make the drive 'bootable' so you could see the %%data files, or in other words the "User" files. I keep all my personal files on an external hard drive, and can open them from pretty much any machine. When creating a networked drive for multiple PC access, I create a new folder directly on the C: drive, which I map to, which is also easily recoverable with a USB cable when you need to pull the hard drive. iTunes uses the boot structured "User" files (which is where multiple user accounts come into play) to store their data files, which generally keeps the novice user out of their inner workings so as to not screw anything up.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.