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Urgent:Recovering deleted User profile from W2k

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by arunakumar, 2004/07/25.

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  1. 2004/07/25
    arunakumar

    arunakumar Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi Gurus,

    Pl help to deal with the follg problem in Windows Op System.

    1.We logged in as a User.
    2.copied the Registry
    3.logged in as Administrator
    4.Deleted the User profile along with all the profiles.
    5.restarted the system.
    6.Now the user has lost all his files saved on the desktop.

    we are unable to retrieve them...Pl anyone suggest what shud we do to recover them? Pl help us.

    Rgds,
     
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  2. 2004/07/26
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    4.Deleted the User profile along with all the profiles.

    Have to ask->What did you expect would happen?

    Have you looked in
    C:\Documents and Settings\UserName
    To see if there was anything left?
     
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  4. 2004/07/26
    arunakumar

    arunakumar Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    It was a mistake. We thought, we have saved the registry in admin mode.

    We searched C:\Documents and Settings\UserName but nothing was available.

    Pl help us.

    Rgds,
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    I looked on MS knowledgebase and didn't see anything. You might want to double check.

    You also might want to NOT use the pc and look for a data recovery tool.
     
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  6. 2004/07/26
    JoeHobart

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    i am not aware of any normal means to recover those files. If that data is critical, now is the time to turn off that machine and contact a data recovery service. Did you have a backup?
     
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    arunakumar

    arunakumar Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    Thanks for the reply.

    We dont have any backup for that machine.

    We are not using the machine anyway.

    Are there any data recovery tools downloadable online?

    Rgds,
     
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  8. 2004/07/29
    Paul

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    Do a search with Google for data recovery or, windows data recovery. Not sure if there are many useable freeware ones, but maybe a free trial period on shareware products that may help you? Looks to be a few options out there.
     
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  9. 2004/08/10
    Grunty

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    Ontrack easy recovery pro will do the job, I have used it to get back data after a full format and re-install of an OS! The trial version will view all deleted files, but will only recover Word documents and Zip files, so if you have lost any other file-types you will have to buy the software or maybe find another product.

    I am sure there are loads of them, but I only have experience with this one.

    Hope this helps
     
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