Re: profile corrupted, deleted everything's gone... anyway to retr
thx, I'm going to try out undelete. First off, I hadn't thought deleting the
profile would take out everything with it, but in the aftermath I didn't even
think to check in the recycle bin. So there are a few files there. But I'm
thinking I've double jinxed myself because I've defragged the drive since
deleting the profile, so am I correct in guessing alot of files undelete
might have found are now going to be gone because of defragging?
big--serious--heavy--sigh...
I bought a drive a few days ago and was just looking for the time to finally
do backups. I guess my computer felt it sitting next to it, "oh no you don't!
go so long without backing up without paying a price for it!"
btw if it matters the logs said there was the corrupt profile and then
followed with note of a "bad block" on the disk, which I thought might
indicate the drive failing but upon a restart, trying to get the original
profile to open again dskchk ran and fixed a bunch of stuff, drive indicates
it's fine (though whether I get out of this or not, will back it up in case
it's not.
thx again. Wished I'd asked before I panicked and made it worse!
"Shenan Stanley " wrote:
> rk wrote:
> > at start up got the note profile corrupted, started with temporary.
> > Unfortunately I messed with it before coming here. I deleted the
> > profile. Is there anyway to get it back? Or at least recover
> > folders, files, etc? Everything from the my docs folder is gone or
> > hidden.
>
> rk wrote:
> > as an ad, I tried system restore, again, it has never worked for
> > me, after the process is complete saying it couldn't restore from
> > that point and try again, has never worked.
> > thx in advance.
>
> System Restore protects only what it states - the "System" files - those
> that are necessary for the base system to function - not your files.
>
> So - you actually deleted it - told it to get rid of the profile and all
> files?
> And you last backup was before you ever created that user account anyway?
>
> You might be able to get something back using something like:
> Undelete: http://www.undelete.com/file-recovery.asp
>
> There are free ones out there:
> Restoration 2.5.14
> http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4474.html
>
> I like Undelete - as it has other features that I find useful for the small
> price.
>
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