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The only option I had was in the blue boot screen, choosing the System Restore option. I do not have an installation CD as this installation came as OEM with the PC, only a partition on the hard drive which is for this System restore utility, which in essence, restores all installation files and drivers to the factory settings, without deleting data files, with the exception of My Documents. Why My documents exactly needs to be victim of this cleanse, remains a mystery to me, but it is my problem.
After the restore and on my new account, I indeed concluded that all original data files on C were still there, with the exception of everything in the My Documents folder. I had already forsaken my old My Documents folder. However. I had two accounts when I initiated the restore. After it, I got into this blue music screen which, at a new installation, guides you to creating a first account.
So, all account details have been deleted, I thought. Fine. Searching for SOME way to restore the deleted files, I came across the Documents and Settings folder ofcourse. In here, I found the directories where they would normally be had my PC not failed. Start Windows (the old public account used by my parents, they demanded it on here) without a password has it's directory, and because it has no password, I can probably see in it as an administrator. I found here, all the files of the my documents folder that were on the Start Windows account. Another thing is that my own old MD folder, from the old admin account of myself, had about 40 GB of files in it. When I look upon my C drive which has a total of 180 GB of free space, there is only 16 GB free. It was nearly full before the restore. Shouldn't there be much more free space?
I said my old account also had a directory in Documents and Settings. This one account had a password, and point is, I can't get into that directory through this, New account. Access denied, big No error. However, with the other, not passworded account's files being preserved, I have hopes that in there, some lost files may still be there. File recovery on my documents wont work as apparently a new user account had to be created with a new documents folder. When I look up the properties of the old admin folder, it says it has no content, though.
The major problem with this is that, although the folders still exist, for Windows, the accounts are no more. I want to get into my old admin folder (HP_Eigenaar). My new admin account is named HP_Eigenaar as well (the PC does that automatically) but in Docs and Settings, the folder is named HP Eigenaar.MYULTIMATE2, the latter part being the name I gave to the PC in the blue account creation screen after the restore.
This is a very long story, I know, and I may just not get anything out of it. But if some files are still there somewhere, I would like to get to them. Howver, how do I get into a passworded accounts files, when windows doesn't know the account exists anymore...
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Edited by Aftershock, 03 October 2008 - 22:00.
