Recover user profiles?

[Guest]

Our family's Windows XP Home edition PC crashed catastrophically and wouldn't
restart - the FAT had been corrupted along with at least one of the Windows
system files. I used recovery mode to run checkdisk then reinstalled Windows.
So far so good.

The problem I've got is that the old user profiles have gone. Although the
user documents are all still there, setting up new user profiles creates a
new user "branch" in Documents and Settings. Isn't there some way I can
"reactivate" the old user profiles?

TIA

Vaughan

 

[neil]

Dont know about recovering the old profile, but you can save the files in
another location say C:\backup and then delete the old profile name. You
then recreate the old user name, boot using the newly created profile and
copy the files back into the "my documents" folder. Create the account using
the built in "administrator" account.

Neil

 

[Guest]

Neil,
I have a related problem -- the user profile does not appear, although I log
in to it. In fact I am using it now (I think?). Although it is set up as an
administrator, it does not act in that manner. What I want to do is to
create a new profile and copy the desktop settings. Any help will be
appreciated.
Edith