Re: Help customer has deleted User profile

From: ProtoStrike (proto.strike@verizon.com)
Date: 09/06/02 

From: "ProtoStrike" <proto.strike@verizon.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 02:12:02 GMT

Matt...have you tried System Restore?
START
Help and Support
click "Undo changes to your computer with System Restore"

I don't know if this will restore DATA though...

"Matt Dobson" <mdobson@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:cca401c25544$367e9e40$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11...
> Can anyone help.
> One of my customers had 2 profiles.
> Logging on with profile 1
> Profile 2 (she thought was left from the upgrade to xp)
> so she deleted it.
> Problem is that when she deleted the 163 meg profile it
> wiped 9 gig of info of her hard disk drive.6 years of work
> has gone (was in the process of burning a backup)
> is there any way to recover the profile.
>

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