NovaGTE
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Is there anyway of recovering a user account within Windows XP or recover a file that was stored within the profile
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ashoasis
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Registered: 7th Feb 04
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cant you log in on the profile then?
can you log in as administrator?
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MikeD
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Registered: 18th Aug 02
Location: Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire
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try in documents and settings
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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if you have deleted the user and its profile then only a system restore
[Edited on 02-01-2005 by GSiSteve]
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NovaGTE
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Its not me, its the girl has been away at uni and her brother has deleted her profile. She wants some old work on there, looked in documents and settings and there is no trace of the profile
whats a system restore?
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MarkW
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Start> Accessories>System Tools its in there, look at the calender - Select date before this happened which are marked in bold - Hopefully it set a restore point before the profile was deleted 
[Edited on 02-01-2005 by MarkW]
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Jodi_the_g
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quote:
Originally posted by MarkW
Start> Accessories>System Tools its in there, look at the calender - Select date before this happened which are marked in bold - Hopefully it set a restore point before the profile was deleted
Should work of the restore point is in the right place/time.
whats with the sig Mark W
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NovaGTE
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Done that and no joy Her brother can't remember the exact date that he did the delete and she has ran it on the earliest date possible and no joy
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MarkW
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quote:
Originally posted by Jodi_the_g
quote:
Originally posted by MarkW
Start> Accessories>System Tools its in there, look at the calender - Select date before this happened which are marked in bold - Hopefully it set a restore point before the profile was deleted
Should work of the restore point is in the right place/time.
whats with the sig Mark W
you know what the sig is about mr myatt 
Nova GTE if you have tried to the earliest restore point and no joy, and you have no backups, and none of the files have been "archived" by windows then your fuked  when the profile was deleted her brother will have been asked if he wanted to save any files, if he said yes they will be somewhere on the hard drive, or is User Account - just try using explorer.. if he said no..... well there is specialist software you can recover files with
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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try and download a piece of software called R-studio, you will need to get a key for it, run that and it will scan your disk for deleted files as when you delete a file it doesnt actually get removed from the disk unless you do a low level format, it just gets marked as overwritable, its usually successful in recovering most files
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Steve
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if you have no joy i can provide you with it and the key its only about 600kb big but worth a lot of money if you were to buy it legally
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Jodi_the_g
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you know what the sig is about mr myatt
Stop calling me mr Myatt
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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Go inside C;\ then Documents and Settings then her username, you'll hopefully get a permission error in which can you need to take ownership of the files and reset the permissions, its quite complicated, let me know if you can locate the folder first.
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MarkW
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quote:
Originally posted by Jodi_the_g
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you know what the sig is about mr myatt
Stop calling me mr Myatt
sori i meant DOM DOM DOM myatt
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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no the folder has gone ian, i think hes checked there, if hes deleted the user the profile will go with it
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Jodi_the_g
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Its Don not DOM
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MarkW
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quote:
Originally posted by Jodi_the_g
Its Don not DOM
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NovaGTE
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Yeah the folder has gone, there is no sign of her logon, it's quite hard explaining what she has to do over the phone as she isn't that good with computers (she once tried gettin her computer off screen saver by knocking the screen!! ) ive had a look for that download steve and it looks as if there is a free version on the site which will allow upto 64KB recovery and as its only a word doc she needs this may be enough
She is gonna try this, so fingers crossed
[Edited on 02-01-2005 by NovaGTE]
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MarkW
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i think you need to go round
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NovaGTE
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I would but she is an hour and a half away as she is home for christmas, going round her student house 2morrow to see if there is another version of the doc on her PC at uni. I best get some good lovin for this when she is back next week
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silver.saxo
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Registered: 25th Dec 04
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Get one of those undelete programs and recover her folder within Documents and Settings (hopefully that part of the drive has not been written to).
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