User Profile deleted

[Tricia Henwood]

Can someone who knows how Windows 2000 works put me out of my misery,
please? My User Profile has been deleted (accidentally) from my computer.
It seems that I have lost everything - My Documents is empty; Outlook only
contains a welcome message from Microsoft and, worst of all, my Contacts
have all disappeared.

I have searched the hard drive and the only .pst folders I can find are two
(recently created) each less than 100Kb in size - one in the name of
Administrator and one in my name. The Recycle Bin is empty. The hard drive
seems to have about 2Gb more space than it had when I last checked!

Simple question - if a User Profile is deleted is this action permanent? Is
there no hope of recovering the data?

Many thanks
Tricia

 

[Dave Patrick]

Asked and answered in .win2000.file_system

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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| Can someone who knows how Windows 2000 works put me out of my misery,
| please? My User Profile has been deleted (accidentally) from my
computer.
| It seems that I have lost everything - My Documents is empty; Outlook only
| contains a welcome message from Microsoft and, worst of all, my Contacts
| have all disappeared.
|
| I have searched the hard drive and the only .pst folders I can find are
two
| (recently created) each less than 100Kb in size - one in the name of
| Administrator and one in my name. The Recycle Bin is empty. The hard
drive
| seems to have about 2Gb more space than it had when I last checked!
|
| Simple question - if a User Profile is deleted is this action permanent?
Is
| there no hope of recovering the data?
|
| Many thanks
| Tricia
|
|