"Malke" wrote:

> dadimar wrote:
>
> > I accidentally deleted a adminstrator account from my computer. It had
> > two accounts, one called Administrator and was an adminstrator
> > account, and another one with my name which was also an administrator
> > account. It bugged me having two accounts like that so I tried to
> > delete the one just called Administrator. That didn't work since it
> > said it was a built-in account and couldn't be deleted. So I deleted
> > my account and renamed the Administrator account to my name so I would
> > only have one account.
> >
> > I was stupid enough to do this...since now  ALL my personal documents,
> > pictures, folders and files are gone! Is there any possible way to get
> > them back?
>
> Yes, it wasn't a wise move. You always want more than one user account
> with administrative privileges on a system. You can't delete the
> built-in Administrator account nor would you ever want to.
>
> You apparently deleted your own personal account and all your files.
> They are gone. Create a new user account (not the built-in
> Administrator account, renamed or otherwise) for your personal use.
> Either 1) restore data from backups; or 2) stop using the computer
> immediately and use data recovery software on the machine to recover
> your data. Using data recovery software successfully requires that you
> have at least one other computer where you can install the software and
> create the bootable media, as well as some level of computer skill to
> retrieve the data. Only you know your own abilities. If this is not
> something you can do and you don't have backups and the data is
> important, take the machine to a professional computer repair shop with
> experience in doing data recovery. This will not be your local
> BigStoreUSA.
>
> http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
> PCInspector File Recovery -
> http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/welcome.htm
> Executive Software “Undelete” -
> http://www.execsoft.com/undelete/undelete.asp
> R-Studio - http://www.r-tt.com/
> Ontrack's EasyRecovery - http://www.ontrack.com/software/
>
> Malke
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"dadimar" <dadi***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3CCFBD68-A3C0-453D-B120-938A3840432E@microsoft.com...
> I've already started copying backup documents from cd's to the computer
> again. But I didn't have everything backed up. Is it too late to try the
> data
> recovery thing? I've restarted the computer once or twice since the
> accident
> happened....