[lug] [OT] Help with Win2000 file recover

[Frank Whiteley]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Briggs" <zlynx at acm.org>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [lug] [OT] Help with Win2000 file recover


> rm at fabula.de wrote:
>
> >A former graphic artist of mine just contaced me in panic: she
> >accidently deleted a whole tree of directories from her Win2000
> >server. From what i can tell the deleted folders/files did _not_
> >end up in the trash can but just fanished (i think she deleted the
> >folders from a remote machine -- i have no idea where Win2000 would
> >put those files). Normaly i stay away from anything Win-like but since
> >this seems to be half a year of work (no, no backups :-/ ) and she
> >has some good-willing but very incompetent advisors allready i thought
> >
> Well, first thing to do is shut down the server.  The longer it runs,
> the more likely it is to write over the data.  Second, search the web
> for good tools, or check out your local CompUSA or other computer store
> for something like Norton tools.  I ran a Google search for "windows
> 2000 file recovery deleted files" and found some good results.
>
Did she delete an entire user profile by any chance?  Doing that in W2K will
remove _everything_ under that profile without a trace.

Frank Whiteley
Greeley