Mountain Lion Lost My Files

I have an iMac (21.5 inch) the newest one...its running Mac OS X 10.7.4...it is the fully loaded package, intel i7 processor, 16GB RAM, 1 256GB Solid State Drive, and 1 2TB ATA Drive...It came with 10.7.4 on the solid state...i downloaded my free copy of Mountain Lion onto my iMac, and put it on the 2 terabyte drive...i use my 2 terabtye for all my files...i am a dj so i use it for mainly music. the solid state has a few added programs and of course the operating system and thats all...when i booted up my imac after installing mountain lion, it booted to mountain lion, but none of my files were there??? so now whenever i turn on my imac i hold down the option key to tell it to boot from the solid state, so i can use and see my files...how to i transfer my files onto mountain lion w/o saving them on an external drive and copying them back onto the computer? am i able to copy mountain lion onto the solid state? i dont wanna erase anything on the computer and dont have any means of external storage...and im not gonna back it up onto the cloud, 2tb of cloud storage is to expensive (if they even offer that much)...any help???

I assume you can see the 2TB drive after booting into Lion? Also: when booted into ML, do you know where your files on the SSD drive are? Can you access them? If you can access your files on the SSD drive while booted into ML, you could just copy them over to the 2TB drive. If you can't access them while booted into ML, you could do the copying while booted into LIon and adjust access. Make sense?

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