Help, lost files during system restore

[Steven Siegler]

HELP! I created a second user account in order to segregate business
matters
from personal stuff. I cut and pasted my business folders to the new user
account. In moving stuff around, I messed up my Wordperfect so I did a
system restore. I got Wordperfect to work but then had second thoughts
about
the second user account. I decided to delete it. I chose the option "KEEP
FILES." Well, it kept the folders but they were empty. I lost all my
business files.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Micky]

HELP! I created a second user account in order to segregate business matters
from personal stuff. I cut and pasted my business folders to the new user
account. In moving stuff around, I messed up my Wordperfect so I did a
system restore. I got Wordperfect to work but then had second thoughts about
the second user account. I decided to delete it. I chose the option "KEEP
FILES." Well, it kept the folders but they were empty. I lost all my
business files.

Get yourself a standalone uneraser -- one that runs from floppy.
Best to use another computer to download and copy to floppy.
Do not use the target computer to download or you risk overwriting
the very files you wish to recover.

Hopefully you've now realised the importance of making backups
before performing any form of maintenance. Tough lesson...

 

[Guest]

hi. can you restore to an earlier date, or undo last restore? maybe your
files will turn up again.

 

[coal_brona]

Hello,

I suppose you can use powerful data recovey tools to try bring lost
files back. Imho Active@ Undelete and Uneraser(pure DOS) are the most
powerful ones, at least they never failed me before. That should
definately help you.

http://www.active-undelete.com

http://www.uneraser.com