If you chose a custom installation it doesn't preserve your programs, files, or settings. It's
sometimes called a "clean" installation for that reason, so your prognosis isn't good.
However If you have an old image that you created then you can use either Ghost or another image application to image browse this and restore to an USB external drive and then copy across to you new USer folder.
If you have upgraded this way without using the
Windows Easy Transfer tool then I am sure these will have gone forever.
Sorry for the bad news, however hindsight is a great thing.
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