Deleted accoutns?

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I accidentally deleted a adminstrator account from my computer. It had two
accounts, one called Administrator and was an adminstrator account, and
another one with my name which was also an administrator account. It bugged
me having two accounts like that so I tried to delete the one just called
Administrator. That didn't work since it said it was a built-in account and
couldn't be deleted. So I deleted my account and renamed the Administrator
account to my name so I would only have one account.

I was stupid enough to do this...since now ALL my personal documents,
pictures, folders and files are gone! Is there any possible way to get them
back?
 
dadimar said:
I accidentally deleted a adminstrator account from my computer. It had
two accounts, one called Administrator and was an adminstrator
account, and another one with my name which was also an administrator
account. It bugged me having two accounts like that so I tried to
delete the one just called Administrator. That didn't work since it
said it was a built-in account and couldn't be deleted. So I deleted
my account and renamed the Administrator account to my name so I would
only have one account.

I was stupid enough to do this...since now ALL my personal documents,
pictures, folders and files are gone! Is there any possible way to get
them back?
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Yes, it wasn't a wise move. You always want more than one user account
with administrative privileges on a system. You can't delete the
built-in Administrator account nor would you ever want to.

You apparently deleted your own personal account and all your files.
They are gone. Create a new user account (not the built-in
Administrator account, renamed or otherwise) for your personal use.
Either 1) restore data from backups; or 2) stop using the computer
immediately and use data recovery software on the machine to recover
your data. Using data recovery software successfully requires that you
have at least one other computer where you can install the software and
create the bootable media, as well as some level of computer skill to
retrieve the data. Only you know your own abilities. If this is not
something you can do and you don't have backups and the data is
important, take the machine to a professional computer repair shop with
experience in doing data recovery. This will not be your local
BigStoreUSA.

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Malke
 
I've already started copying backup documents from cd's to the computer
again. But I didn't have everything backed up. Is it too late to try the data
recovery thing? I've restarted the computer once or twice since the accident
happened....
 
The more you do with the computer, the less likely it is that the files can
be recovered. If you're quite serious about this, shut it off now - unplug
it or turn the power off, don't shut it down from the shut down menu, shut
it OFF and leave it off.

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