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More info?)
Thanks Guys, I kind of figured it was a lost cause. It has been a couple
of weeks since it was done. I was hoping a system restore going back that
far might work but I guess not.
Thanks anyway, I appreciate the support
"Malke" wrote:
> the dumb one wrote:
>
> > I took over a computer and deleted the previous owners user.
> > Unfortunately,
> > I did it before she got all her files off. How can I get them back?
> > windows xp home second edition
>
> Short of running data recovery software on the machine, those files are
> gone.
>
> There are free data recovery programs available (Google for them), but I
> have not used them. Some commercial (and very expensive) data recovery
> programs are Easy Recovery Pro, which works very well and I have heard
> good reports about R-Studio. I think the best solution would be for you
> to have a computer professional try and recover the files since they
> will have the data recovery software needed. If there is no one locally
> who can do it, you can try a professional data recovery firm such as
> Drive Savers (www.drivesavers.com). Their services are not inexpensive,
> but only the previous owner can decide how much her data is worth.
>
> If you want to try to recover the data, it is crucial that you do
> *nothing* further on the machine.
>
> Malke
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