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Author Topic: Accidently deleted user account,how to get back the files,pls?  (Read 3499 times)

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jmiah15

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My friend accidently deleted his user account in Windows XP Home.
Now he is crying for his important files.
System restore point is not created when I checked for him.

Now there are still two user accounts  guest and administrator.
Before he delete, windows automatically log in with his account.

How can I open back windows with his user account or how can I get back
his files please.

RAM 700MB, 40G, MSI mainboard.

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Re: Accidently deleted user account,how to get back the files,pls?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2007, 09:24:09 AM »
You can't.

Unless he stored his files in a place on the hard drive like a temp folder or another folder like that they are gone.

When you delete the account it clears the regisrty of the pointers to the locations for his stuff like My Documents. This opens the space on the hard drive to be used by other users and programs.

You may have a small chance trying a data restore program. Something like this...

http://www.data-recovery-software.net/

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    Re: Accidently deleted user account,how to get back the files,pls?
    « Reply #2 on: April 16, 2007, 09:54:44 AM »
    What files do you mean?
    Try Administrator login. You should have access to all of the surviving files.
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    Re: Accidently deleted user account,how to get back the files,pls?
    « Reply #4 on: April 18, 2007, 05:18:41 AM »
    Files here I mean all that he has in his user account.

    Any other hope please, to get back all his account or all files?

    Hopefully waiting for your help everybody , thanks