OS 9 Desktop path for G4 with factory OS X and OS 9

Greetings All,
I had a Power Mac G4 that shipped with OS X 1.1.2 and OS 9.2.2 preloaded. I upgraded OS X to Panther. The Mac could operate OS 9 in Classic mode or by rebooting from a virtual OS 9 startup disc. I usually used my OS 9 apps by rebooting.
Last Sunday, that computer and hard drive suffered a fatal power surge, and I am sending the hard drive to Gillware data recovery. (Yes, I knew better, and yes I should have backed up...) Anyway, since I didn't, the data recovery team wants the filenames and paths for the most important files.
What is the path and folder name (from the root, not from the virtual OS 9 drive) for the OS 9 desktop?
Thanks,
Sarah
G4   Mac OS X (10.1.x)  
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

Hi, Sarah. I hope I'm understanding your question correctly.
At the factory, OS X and OS 9.2.2 were both installed on a single volume, i.e. an unpartitioned hard drive. If the drive has not been reformatted since then, the OS 9 System Folder resides on the root level of the drive, as do the major components of OS X. OS 9's Desktop Folder (which contains all the items that appear on your desktop when you've booted into OS 9, but not when you've booted into OS X) is an invisible folder, also residing on the root level of the hard drive.
I don't know what you mean by a "virtual OS 9 startup disc". If you have only one hard drive, and you used to boot your Mac into OS 9 by choosing OS 9 in the Startup Disk pane of System Prefs in OS X, then the locations I've described above should be correct.
I do hope the data recovery service you're using has some experience with the Mac file system. It would be a shame for you to introduce them to it at the expense of your data, in addition to what will probably be a stiff fee.

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