profile corrupted, deleted everything's gone... anyway to retrieve

[Guest]

at start up got the note profile corrupted, started with temporary.
Unfortunately I messed with it before coming here. I deleted the profile. Is
there anyway to get it back? Or at least recover folders, files, etc?
Everything from the my docs folder is gone or hidden.

 

[Guest]

as an ad, I tried system restore, again, it has never worked for me, after
the process is complete saying it couldn't restore from that point and try
again, has never worked.
thx in advance.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

at start up got the note profile corrupted, started with temporary.
Unfortunately I messed with it before coming here. I deleted the
profile. Is there anyway to get it back? Or at least recover
folders, files, etc? Everything from the my docs folder is gone or
hidden.

as an ad, I tried system restore, again, it has never worked for
me, after the process is complete saying it couldn't restore from
that point and try again, has never worked.
thx in advance.

System Restore protects only what it states - the "System" files - those
that are necessary for the base system to function - not your files.

So - you actually deleted it - told it to get rid of the profile and all
files?
And you last backup was before you ever created that user account anyway?

You might be able to get something back using something like:
Undelete: http://www.undelete.com/file-recovery.asp

There are free ones out there:
Restoration 2.5.14
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4474.html

I like Undelete - as it has other features that I find useful for the small
price.

 

[Guest]

thx, I'm going to try out undelete. First off, I hadn't thought deleting the
profile would take out everything with it, but in the aftermath I didn't even
think to check in the recycle bin. So there are a few files there. But I'm
thinking I've double jinxed myself because I've defragged the drive since
deleting the profile, so am I correct in guessing alot of files undelete
might have found are now going to be gone because of defragging?
big--serious--heavy--sigh...
I bought a drive a few days ago and was just looking for the time to finally
do backups. I guess my computer felt it sitting next to it, "oh no you don't!
go so long without backing up without paying a price for it!"

btw if it matters the logs said there was the corrupt profile and then
followed with note of a "bad block" on the disk, which I thought might
indicate the drive failing but upon a restart, trying to get the original
profile to open again dskchk ran and fixed a bunch of stuff, drive indicates
it's fine (though whether I get out of this or not, will back it up in case
it's not.

thx again. Wished I'd asked before I panicked and made it worse!

 

[Patrick Keenan]

thx, I'm going to try out undelete. First off, I hadn't thought deleting
the
profile would take out everything with it, but in the aftermath I didn't
even
think to check in the recycle bin. So there are a few files there. But I'm
thinking I've double jinxed myself because I've defragged the drive since
deleting the profile, so am I correct in guessing alot of files undelete
might have found are now going to be gone because of defragging?
big--serious--heavy--sigh...
I bought a drive a few days ago and was just looking for the time to
finally
do backups. I guess my computer felt it sitting next to it, "oh no you
don't!
go so long without backing up without paying a price for it!"

btw if it matters the logs said there was the corrupt profile and then
followed with note of a "bad block" on the disk, which I thought might
indicate the drive failing but upon a restart, trying to get the original
profile to open again dskchk ran and fixed a bunch of stuff, drive
indicates
it's fine (though whether I get out of this or not, will back it up in
case
it's not.

thx again. Wished I'd asked before I panicked and made it worse!

If you're getting "bad block" messages, replace the drive. They are cheap.
Do the install to the new drive with the old detached, install data recovery
software to the new drive. Then, attach the old drive and see what you can
recover.

No, it's not promising that chkdsk was run, wastebasket emptied and defrag
run. All of these dramatically reduce probablilities.

HTH
-pk

 

[Guest]

thx for the response, especially the "No, it's not promising..." which is
pretty gentle of you instead of just saying (which I've been saying to
myself) "you dumb$#%@&*!!! you are so screwed!!!!"

sigh...
I have a laptop and am not clear how to "detach" it to "do the install" on
the external drive. Can you point me to this info or clarify?

I'm still stunned that deleting the profile wiped out so many files!!! Am I
correct to assume this was because they were in the "my docs" folder for that
profile? And whatever's in there gets deleted when you delete the profile?
And
just so I don't appear totally clueless, my first effort was to try and make
a copy of the original profile. I had my brainfreeze and deleted it only
after alot of efforts (that seemed not to work) to save the original profile,
before changing the course of my life based upon the files I appear to be
losing....

thx in advance if you (or anyone else) have a moment to respond...

 

[dreamboy.genius]

at start up got the note profile corrupted, started with temporary.
Unfortunately I messed with it before coming here. I deleted the profile. Is
there anyway to get it back? Or at least recover folders, files, etc?
Everything from the my docs folder is gone or hidden.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Recovery software will recovery anything from
windows based system. Recover the deleted data from formated hard
drive or data lost due to software malfunction, file/directory
deletion, viruses or sabotage.
Download the demo from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm
Demo will help you in determining the software, if it shows the
recovered data.

 

[Og]

Stellar Phoenix Windows Recovery software will recovery anything from
windows based system. Recover the deleted data from formated hard
drive or data lost due to software malfunction, file/directory
deletion, viruses or sabotage.
Download the demo from: http://www.stellarinfo.com/partition-recovery.htm
Demo will help you in determining the software, if it shows the
recovered data.

Steve