chrisjoane
Member
Hi
Incredible forum and can't believe I've not found it sooner.
I'm looking for a little help with a frustrating problem which I'll try and keep to the basics.
My son downloaded a program which (I assume), deleted the administrator and my account (chris) from Windows vista. ie When I logged in the admin and my log in "icon" were still there but when I tried to log in, it informed me the user details/password weren't correct.
The details to fix this were on this forum - which were to go to the HKEY registry and delete a .BAK file. However the SID field was not there and no user account was shown. I assumed the account information had been wiped clean and therefore I was unable to log on. The files that were there were "S-1-5-18" 19 & 20
I tried System Recovery along with sf /scannow and numerous other ideas. I downloaded ultimatebootcd and tried a few things - still nothing.
I'm convinced the program must have had a virus which just deleted my accounts from the registry.
Therefore all "paths" from these accounts can't get accessed to.
I've fortunately backed up my data! ...atleast the main areas photos/videos/music.
I've now copied the 2 partitions from my laptop hard drive to an external drive (but not the boot info).
I can view all my photos etc on the external drive from my newly formatted laptop drive.
However, I can't find emails, documents etc which I would love to find - I didnt back these up prior to the errors.
As the "users" file has no entry (on the external hard drive) I believe all the paths leading from these accounts can't be found correctly but (I hope), are actually still on the hard drive....somewhere.
I've tried just naming a file "chris" on the users file and even copying all new user (chris) data from my newly formatted drive to the external drive files but this didnt work.
Are there any programs that can find hidden or all files on a drive (although these files haven't been "deleted") - or does the program need a "path" to actually find a file. ie c:\chris\documents\pictures ....because "chris" no longer exists does that mean I can no longer see the "documents or pictures file?? .....or is there a back door method.
ANY help on this will be GREATLY appreciated as I've already spent the last 2 weeks trying to work this out and even though I've managed to save 80% of my media, finding my emails and documents would be the icing on the cake - cheers
Chris
Incredible forum and can't believe I've not found it sooner.
I'm looking for a little help with a frustrating problem which I'll try and keep to the basics.
My son downloaded a program which (I assume), deleted the administrator and my account (chris) from Windows vista. ie When I logged in the admin and my log in "icon" were still there but when I tried to log in, it informed me the user details/password weren't correct.
The details to fix this were on this forum - which were to go to the HKEY registry and delete a .BAK file. However the SID field was not there and no user account was shown. I assumed the account information had been wiped clean and therefore I was unable to log on. The files that were there were "S-1-5-18" 19 & 20
I tried System Recovery along with sf /scannow and numerous other ideas. I downloaded ultimatebootcd and tried a few things - still nothing.
I'm convinced the program must have had a virus which just deleted my accounts from the registry.
Therefore all "paths" from these accounts can't get accessed to.
I've fortunately backed up my data! ...atleast the main areas photos/videos/music.
I've now copied the 2 partitions from my laptop hard drive to an external drive (but not the boot info).
I can view all my photos etc on the external drive from my newly formatted laptop drive.
However, I can't find emails, documents etc which I would love to find - I didnt back these up prior to the errors.
As the "users" file has no entry (on the external hard drive) I believe all the paths leading from these accounts can't be found correctly but (I hope), are actually still on the hard drive....somewhere.
I've tried just naming a file "chris" on the users file and even copying all new user (chris) data from my newly formatted drive to the external drive files but this didnt work.
Are there any programs that can find hidden or all files on a drive (although these files haven't been "deleted") - or does the program need a "path" to actually find a file. ie c:\chris\documents\pictures ....because "chris" no longer exists does that mean I can no longer see the "documents or pictures file?? .....or is there a back door method.
ANY help on this will be GREATLY appreciated as I've already spent the last 2 weeks trying to work this out and even though I've managed to save 80% of my media, finding my emails and documents would be the icing on the cake - cheers
Chris
