lost profile in win 2000

[lula]

Hello, one of my coworkers I work with turned on his computer and typed in
his username and password and it came up, but like if it was the first time
that he logged onto that computer.
When I went to see the local users and gropus, I have Administrator,
Maintenance Director (this is his username) and Guest. Everything seems to be
fine there and in fact I could log on with his regular username and password,
but for some reason it was like he never logged on before.
He does have access now to his email and internet as I set up the internet
again and his email in Outlook (although he has set up a cox email acocunt
and it wasnt set up to save messages on the server so he only has new emails
that are coming now, not old emails) but the main issue now is that all his
documents are lost.

If there is a way to recover his documents and his previous emails it would
be great.
Any ideas on what I can do?
Thank you very much for all your help i n advance.

lula

 

[John John (MVP)]

His documents would still be in his old profile folder. See here for
more information on how to recover the lost profile:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...a/170e58adfcbbc46d?lnk=st&q=#170e58adfcbbc46d

John

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello, one of my coworkers I work with turned on his computer and typed in
his username and password and it came up, but like if it was the first
time
that he logged onto that computer.
When I went to see the local users and gropus, I have Administrator,
Maintenance Director (this is his username) and Guest. Everything seems to
be
fine there and in fact I could log on with his regular username and
password,
but for some reason it was like he never logged on before.
He does have access now to his email and internet as I set up the internet
again and his email in Outlook (although he has set up a cox email acocunt
and it wasnt set up to save messages on the server so he only has new
emails
that are coming now, not old emails) but the main issue now is that all
his
documents are lost.

If there is a way to recover his documents and his previous emails it
would
be great.
Any ideas on what I can do?
Thank you very much for all your help i n advance.

lula

Your coworker is skating on very thin ice if he does not back up his
important documents to an independent medium regularly, e.g. once a week.
This time he's lucky but next time he might lose the lot. A 2.5" hard disk
in an external USB case is a low-cost but highly effective backup medium.

To give him access to his previous files you need to log on as Administrator
and grant him ownership to his profile folder in c:\Documents and Settings.
Click Start / Help and look for help on Ownership if unsure how to do this.
By the way, you're posting in a WinXP newsgroup. There is a dedicated
Windows 2000 newsgroup that would be a better place for this question.

 

[lula]

Thank you very much to both of you. I will try it and let you guys know.
Sorry, I actually couldnt find the WIN2000 group but now I see it.

thank you again for your quick answers.