Help! Guest account on Win2k

[TSDible]

Hey guys...

My wife just called for work. She was doing a favor for another department and working on some files for them on a laptop. Long story short... someone in that department copied a folder of stuff for her to work on on a laptop. She was logged in as a "guest" account, and now when she logs back in as a guest, the folder is gone.

The bad news is... the guy who copied the folder did not copy it at all... he moved the file there. Now they think they have lost two weeks of work. Any advice??

Thanks in advance

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They copied the folder on to the desktop
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[mechBgon]

Did someone log onto the lappie as an admin and search for the folder already?

 

[TSDible]

I told her to try that...

we will see what happens.

 

[TSDible]

Ok... that didn't work...

now I'm having her search using the date modified option under the admin account.

Any other ideas ? If she was logged on as a profile that is not saved, would it delete everything she had saved on her desktop? Would there be a way to recover?

TIA

 

[mechBgon]

I'm going to try it on my Win2k system here and see what happens. Back in a few...

 

[mechBgon]

Looks like stuff on Guest's desktop is perma-gone when I log off and log on again.

 

[TSDible]

any way to recover at all?

 

[mechBgon]

What I did was to make a Word document on the Guest desktop with the word "Boozles!" in it ( ), then log off, then log on as Guest. Hey, the document's gone! So I logged off, logged on as Administrator, and did a full-text search of every file on the entire hard drive, looking for any file containing "Boozles!". No dice, and I was searching hidden, protected and system files too. So I'd say it's a gonner. Hopefully they learn from this... I know I did.

 

[TSDible]

hmmm....

Maybe a file recovery tool would work for them... I will drop the idea, but unless they create a paying position for me I'm done.



Thanks for all your help.

 

[KingofFah]

Free recovery tool that is decent at recovery found here. It is ok, but does not get everything. You could at least try it. For more advanced file recovery I have always had to use software that costs $.

 

[TSDible]

Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged (does not work with the NTFS file system)

Unfortuneately, I'm pretty sure they are using NTFS

 

[KingofFah]

Is that from the link I gave you?
Pretty funny, but I say to not listen to them, since they do not know their own software. It works fine on my NTFS and FAT32 partitions.