Re: How to undelete a user profile

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox@mvps.org)
Date: 12/19/02 

From: "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:48:04 -0500

There are tools and utilities, but the more you use your computer, the more likely it becomes that the space used by the deleted files have been taken for something else (overwritten). This makes it more unlikely that you'll be able to recover them. 

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"Fred del Rosario Jr." <asr@info.com.ph> wrote in message news:05f101c2a752$f143e270$d7f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA14...
> Is there no utility program that can unerase the files 
> that have been deleted? Is it not true that even if files 
> are deleted they can still be recovered by utility tools? 
> In fact some utility tool ads say that even if the hard 
> disk has been formated, there is still a chance that some 
> files can be recovered.  If I'm sounding unreasonably 
> hopeful, it's because I am near desperation.
> 
> Thanks for any more advice on this issue.
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >If you told XP to delete the files when you deleted the 
> account, they are gone.
> >
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> >Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
> >Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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> >"Fred del Rosario Jr." <asr@info.com.ph> wrote in message 
> news:020601c2a685$cc0b77c0$8df82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA02...
> >> Using a PIII CPU on an intranet.
> >> I inadvertently deleted a user profile (let's call it 
> >> ECM") and lost access to the My Documents.  I tried to 
> >> recover by logging on to ECM and XP created a new user 
> >> profile by that name with a blank My Document and My 
> Music 
> >> folder.  I could no longer find the contents of the 
> >> previous ECM's My Document.  I looked at all the user 
> >> folders under Documents and Settings folder but they 
> are 
> >> nowhere to be found. I set the folder view to display 
> all 
> >> files including system and other hidden files.
> >> Are the files permanently erased when a user profile is 
> >> deleted?  If not, where can the contents of the 
> previous 
> >> My Documents be found other than in the Documents and 
> >> Settings folder?
> >> Any assistance will be much appreciated.
> >> 
> >> Fred del Rosario, Jr.
> >.
> >

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