Re: How can I restore a deleted user and files

From: Malke (notreally_at_invalid.com)
Date: 06/14/05 

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:43:20 -0700

the dumb one wrote:

> I took over a computer and deleted the previous owners user.
> Unfortunately,
> I did it before she got all her files off. How can I get them back?
> windows xp home second edition

Short of running data recovery software on the machine, those files are
gone.

There are free data recovery programs available (Google for them), but I
have not used them. Some commercial (and very expensive) data recovery
programs are Easy Recovery Pro, which works very well and I have heard
good reports about R-Studio. I think the best solution would be for you
to have a computer professional try and recover the files since they
will have the data recovery software needed. If there is no one locally
who can do it, you can try a professional data recovery firm such as
Drive Savers (www.drivesavers.com). Their services are not inexpensive,
but only the previous owner can decide how much her data is worth.

If you want to try to recover the data, it is crucial that you do
*nothing* further on the machine.

Malke 

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