recover files from deleted user account

Jennifer SUMN April 3, 2010 at 16:52:34

The files should still be under the user's profile in C:\Documents and Settings. Assuming, of course, that's where the user stored them. id10t

the files that i need back were only in the deleted user account...

kuwese April 3, 2010 at 21:22:24

When u delete user account there's a option "keep files" "delete files" which one did u click? If keep files then u should find the files in documents & settings.

Jennifer SUMN April 4, 2010 at 04:49:52

Did you delete both the account AND the profile? id10t

Tubesandwires April 4, 2010 at 20:59:14

When you attempt to delete a users account, you are WARNED before it is actually deleted by a brief message that ALL the personal data for that user will be deleted. Some people miss that. ALL the personal data for that user = ALL the data that's in C:\Documents and Settings\that user\ all that users subfolders and files is deleted and DOES NOT show up in the Recycle Bin. The only way you can recover that data is to use some sort of Undelete program. The longer you wait, the more likely Windows has already overwritten the location of the files. You get the best results if you DO NOT boot from the Windows installation that you deleted the user on - e.g. install the hard drive internally on another computer, DO NOT boot from your drive, install the Undelete program in Windows on the other computer, have it recover files on your drive. E.g. Free... PC Inspector http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pcinsp... Testdisk - get the Stable version: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Test... Glary Undelete: http://glary-undelete.en.softonic.com/ ....... Paid..... Zero assumption Recovery http://www.z-a-recovery.com The demo is limited It will only recover 'up to' four folders per run But you can make multiple runs Really good, but you have to pay for it. GetDataBack http://www.runtime.org/ XpUser4Real offered this recently... I would suggest you try filescavenger, install the trial version and see what it finds. You can recover some small files, but you will have to pay for the program to get larger files. http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm