Re: Restoring deleted users My Documents folder

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:57:05 -0700

As luck had it, she had copied her pics to a photo progam
and found them. When I tried to duplicate the problem I
was promted to create a save folder for My Documents. I
don't understand why someone would "not" do that. Oh well.

Technically, I wonder what XP does different with users
data on the hard drive read/write which prevents recovery
when a user is deleted? I would would think the data is
still there because nothing as be written over it yet.
Odd.

kel
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>If you've already tried 4 recovery programs, then you
are basically out of
>luck. User account data is difficult at best to recover.
Another reason why
>periodic backups of critical data is important. Frankly,
that was a pretty
>piss-poor way of resolving the issue, you might want to
consider a different
>"tech" next time.
>
>--
>Best of Luck,
>
>Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
>Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>"Navykel" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:1b45601c44ff6$70e9b4d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> A friend of mine had a tech come out and fix a problem
>> with her system. His solution was to delete her account
>> then re-create it. The problem is all her My Documents
>> folder and sub-folders are gone. If the tech did not
>> select "create folder on Desktop" when he deleted the
>> user, is there a tool which will find the deleted
files?
>> I have used about 4 different restore programs and all
>> seem to find my deleted files but not the old user's My
>> Document folder or content.
>
>
>.
>

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