How to recover the deleted user Accounts.

[Guest]

My sister made the mistake of erasing all the user accounts including the
original one that is called by default Owner by the Windows XP System. To
erse that one she created a new Administrator Accout and now she erased all
the information in the original Owner account. Is there any way to get the
original Owner account files and everything that was before she made that
mistake.

Thanks

Miducuast

 

[Galen]

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My sister made the mistake of erasing all the user accounts including
the original one that is called by default Owner by the Windows XP
System. To erse that one she created a new Administrator Accout and
now she erased all the information in the original Owner account. Is
there any way to get the original Owner account files and everything
that was before she made that mistake.

Thanks

Miducuast

That depends. Did she tick the box to remove the files associated with the
accounts when she opted to delete them? If so you can *maybe* recreate the
account name and/or copy that information from those accounts as if it was a
corrupted profile. (This is a 2k group by the way - XP is down the hall on
the right.)

If she did so then, if the information is important, you can stop using the
PC, place the drive in another, pray that EFS wasn't enabled, and try to
recover the data or you can spend thousands of dollars sending it to a
specialized data recovery facility who may or may not be able to recover the
data.

So, here's some stuff...

Corrupt Profile:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/corrupt_profile.html

Showing Hidden Files:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/show_hidden_files.html

And if you want a stab at it if she opted to delete the files:

Data Recovery Tools:
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html

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whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Steven L Umbach]

There is no such thing as default "owner" account for the operating system.
There is a default built in administrator account and the account itself can
not be deleted but the user profile/files for it can be and a new one will
be generated the next time the built in administrator logs on which can be
only done in Safe Mode in XP Home. You can use the command net localgroup
administrators to see members of the administrators group. If you mean that
files are missing see Galen's suggestions. If the files are still there
under documents and settings you will need to logon as an administrator and
first take ownership and then grant yourself permissions to the files to
access them. --- Steve