Ntuser.dat/User Account Profle Recovery

[dolphiness1976]

You can laugh, but please don't call me an idiot...

I accidently deleted my user account (not admin account). So, I
created a new account and thought I could copy the ntuser.dat files
to
the new account. Problem is the ntuser.dat files did not have my old
profile, it had a new "blank" profile. (Luckily, I've been able to
recover most of my files.)


My question is:


It looks like maybe I recovered an old registry(?). Any chance there
is
an old copy of my ntuser.dat file(s) that I can copy to my new user
profile? If so, how would I "reload" the recovered registry.


Thanks so much,


Sarah

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

You can laugh, but please don't call me an idiot...

I accidently deleted my user account (not admin account). So, I
created a new account and thought I could copy the ntuser.dat files
to
the new account. Problem is the ntuser.dat files did not have my old
profile, it had a new "blank" profile. (Luckily, I've been able to
recover most of my files.)


My question is:


It looks like maybe I recovered an old registry(?). Any chance there
is
an old copy of my ntuser.dat file(s) that I can copy to my new user
profile? If so, how would I "reload" the recovered registry.


Thanks so much,


Sarah

1. Reboot.
2. Log on as Administrator.
3. Save the existing ntuser.dat file in a safe place.
4. Copy the old ntuser.dat file to the new profile folder.
5. Log on as yourself.

 

[dolphiness1976]

1. Reboot.
2. Log on as Administrator.
3. Save the existing ntuser.dat file in a safe place.
4. Copy the old ntuser.dat file to the new profile folder.
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That is the problem. The ntuser.dat files that were deleted belonged
to the admin account. It seems I had renamed my admin account to, for
ex. "Sarah". I saw that I had 2 admin accounts, so I deleted the
"Sarah" account, which then deleted that entire admin account.

??

Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Sarah

 

[dolphiness1976]

That is the problem. The ntuser.dat files that were deleted belonged
to the admin account. It seems I had renamed my admin account to, for
ex. "Sarah". I saw that I had 2 admin accounts, so I deleted the
"Sarah" account, which then deleted that entire admin account.

??

Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Sarah- Hide quoted text -

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I'm sorry, I was wrong before when I said it was a "user" account.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

That is the problem. The ntuser.dat files that were deleted belonged
to the admin account. It seems I had renamed my admin account to, for
ex. "Sarah". I saw that I had 2 admin accounts, so I deleted the
"Sarah" account, which then deleted that entire admin account.

??

Any ideas?

Thanks again,

Sarah

If you deleted the original ***profile folder*** for the administrator
account then I cannot help you. Try one of the many undelete utilities
that you can download from the Internet.