Need to recover data from deleted windows xp local account

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Here's the senario: User left company and new user hired to fill position.
The previous user ran 3dmax application and rendered months of graphic files.
The previous user did not move data from local computer to shared drive. IT
tech deleted previous users profile, art manager came looking for missing
data in documents and settings folder, but the profile had been deleted. Is
there a program that can recover a deleted local profile? If not, what is the
best coarse of action to recover as much data as possible to save weeks of
rework. Any help would be greatly apprecicated. Thanks.

 

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Here's the senario: User left company and new user hired to fill position.
The previous user ran 3dmax application and rendered months of graphic files.
The previous user did not move data from local computer to shared drive. IT
tech deleted previous users profile, art manager came looking for missing
data in documents and settings folder, but the profile had been deleted. Is
there a program that can recover a deleted local profile? If not, what is the
best coarse of action to recover as much data as possible to save weeks of
rework. Any help would be greatly apprecicated. Thanks.

Here are a few recovery tools:
http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm (to restore NTFS partitions - seems to
work well)
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz
http://www.runtime.org/ (GetDataBack)
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/filerecoverysecdownload.html
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

You should install the user's hard disk as a slave disk in
some other machine so that nothing get changed or overwritten
during the recovery process. An even better way is to create
an image onto another disk so that the original is not modified
by the recovery tools.

If this is beyond your technical expertise then a data recovery
service may be able to help you. Ask for quotes first, especially
for the cost of an unsuccessful recovery attempt.

You also need to address the underlying issues. Allowing users
to keep important files on their workstations, without any backup
on independent media, flies in the face of all rules on safe
computing. It may be that you have to accept this unfortunate
event as an expensive lesson in how to secure the company's
valuable data.