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Expert: Denis Mello - 11/5/2009
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Hello Denis, from Down Under..
After the dreadful blue screen appearing, dumping physical memory, a brand-spanking-new administrator profile appeared as if I'd reinstall the OS. I'm running 2000 pro. Now all my folders seem to be located in a folder called administrator.bak. But my pc isn't interested in logging on with it..Also all my mail in Outlook seem to have vanished. Doing a search of *.pst files don't point anywhere. Any chance you can help me restore it all?
Under system properties i have 3 profiles: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM...WINDOWSAdministration....WINDOWSAdministrator
Under Users and Profiles I have 4 profiles: Admin...Administration...Administrator...ASPNET...Guest
Under Documents and Settings I have now 6 profiles: Administration.WINDOWS...Administrator.Bak...All users...Default User...SYSTEM...TEMP (didn't have the last 2 before)
My pc: Pentium 4 cpu 1.7GHz 1G of RAM Window 2000 5.00 service pack 4
Id like to thank you very much for dedicating your time to answer questions to strangers like me. Please know that I'm extremely appreciative.
Kind Regards,
Stephan
Answer
Hi Stephan.
I understand your concern. It's terrible losing data under any circunstance.
In this message I will be as straight as I can:
- In order to try recovering your data I suggest you to remove the your HD from the PC;
- Connect it as an external HD buy buying a Case (here I pay no more than $20);
- Connect your Case in a laptop or other PC through a USB port;
- Install on this PC/Laptop a tool for recovering partitions. I strongly recommend the tool named Active Partition Recovery (http://www.partition-recovery.com/).
- Install the full version by going to rapidshare/google and download the version cracked.
- After connect, run the program. It will recognize your external HD and begin the steps of recovering.
- Depending on the quality of your partition (physical and logical partition) the tool will be able to recover most of your partition and files. Note that the Active File Recovery may also be useful (http://www.file-recovery.net/). I tested both and they're amazing!
Believe me. It is not too difficult to handle this. By the other hand if you keep pushing on your own PC/System, it may damage even more what you have. I believe the most important thing for you is recovering your critical data. Try what I suggested here and tell me the results.
Sorry for responding so late, but due to different time zones (Australia x Brazil), most of the time I have to respond on my business work time.
Best regards.
Vinny!
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