User Profile Corrupt, Lost My Documents Folder

[Guest]

hi, when I booted my XP Pro system, my user profile (admin) was corrupt and
all my user settings were lost. Then I found that my documents were gone
too. The files do not appear anywhere on my hard drive. no docs & settings
folder has them. btw, no viruses found on my pc.

When I use a undelete file utility, I can see the files at c:/documents &
settings/temp, but windows explorer does not see this folder. Nor does
explorer see any *.doc, *.xls, *.jpg, or any other file that I had saved in
"My Documents"

The file resoration free ware that I downloaded (to usb drive) does recover
some files that have not been written over. However, I have multi GB of data
that's on my HD that I cannot access with windows. Any suggestions please?

Help!

 

[Guest]

In addition, I attempted system resore at 3 points back. No help.

 

[S.Sengupta]

If System Restore does not work, in that Administrator logon go to
Control Panel and create a new user account that will replace the
damaged one.
Now open My Computer windows on the two user's profile folders, and copy
across the folders inside, from the old into the new One now you can
remove the old one and its files.


regards,
ssg MS-MVP