Restore Deleted User Account/Files?

[Dell Christopher]

WinXP Home



I deleted one of the user accounts on my computer and, with it, hundreds of
photos that were stored in that specific account. I was unable to find them
in the Recycle Bin, or anywhere else on the hard drive. I also tried a
System Restore operation but it did not recover the photos.



Is there a way to restore a deleted User Account and its deleted files?
Thanks!

 

[Pennywise]

WinXP Home



I deleted one of the user accounts on my computer and, with it, hundreds of
photos that were stored in that specific account. I was unable to find them
in the Recycle Bin, or anywhere else on the hard drive. I also tried a
System Restore operation but it did not recover the photos.



Is there a way to restore a deleted User Account and its deleted files?
Thanks!

Yes
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=restore+deleted+files&btnG=Google+Search
but if you have to ask find someone with the knowledge to do this.

And stop using the computer in question, until this is accomplished.

 

[Guest]

If you are extremely lucky the user's profile-folder may still be there, under
C: \Documents and Settings. Depends if the person removing the user ticked
'Files' as well as the account. If it is, you may need to take ownership of
it to access the contents, but that's all.

If not, then there are various undelete utilities available, Fast File
Undelete is good but not free, this one
http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html is free and gets good reports
though I personally haven't tried it. Basically, because of the way disks
work (only the directory-listing is removed on deletion and not the actual
file contents) undelete utilities have an excellent chance of recovering a
file if you use them straightaway, but if you leave it a while then the
chances are the disk-space will be reused, then there's no chance. Thus if
the files are valuable, don't use the computer any more than you have to
until undeletion has been tried.