Solved no user partitions after system restore

[skeletor16940]

hello fellow vista users

I seem to have a real problem on my hands, would appreciate some help. I did a system restore last Friday and all went well (I thought) However, when one of my 2 daughters attempted to gain access to her part, she was greeted with a black screen and no program icons. My other daughter attempted to do the same on her account, with the same result. Previous to the system restore, they could both access their partitions easily with everything on display. The laptop has a 250 gig h/d, and they were designated as standard accounts, mine being the admin account. They are particularly keen to retrieve their I-tunes stuff, so any help or advice would be gratefully received. I am trying hard to avoid a reformat. Thank you.

 

[Brink]

Hello Skeletor, and welcome to Vista Forums.

From your administrator account, check to see if their C:\Users\(user name) folder is still there. If it is, then you can create new user accounts for them and just copy the contents of the their old C:\Users\(user name) folder into the corresponding new user folders to have them all back.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[skeletor16940]

thanks for your quick reply, however I have formatted the drive and re-installed vista home premium. Thanks again.

 

[Brink]

No problem Skeletor. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.