Really weird thing happened on my win 7 box

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I just finished nuking and paving an old Dell 2400 that had the virus removal virus on it. I pulled the HDD and connected it to my Win 7 machine, ran Security Essentials and cleared the virus. Then I wrote a word pad doc with the names of the threats removed and liinks to the descriptions found for each, planning to give it to the owner when I returned the PC. So I was waiting for the 135 updates the be downloaded and installed on the 2400 and went to my machine and opened the links to read about the threats. Now I can't find the wordpad document! It is nowhere to be found on the Win 7 machine. WTF? Wordpad hangs (not responsive) when I try to open it from recent documents menu choice. A search of My computer came up with nothing, so, somehow, it's fallen into cyberspace. Not in the trash either, nor did I put it there or empty it. It's not a bug - it's a feature. FYI, I ran Security Essentials on my computer again and there were no threats found.
No remedies needed. I can recreate the doc - just wondering and ranting (a little). Where did it go, George? Where did it go?