Anyone Business Computer Savvy, HELP!!!!!!!!!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

My best friend is freaking right now because at work today the girl in IT accidentally corrupted her profile or somethin, then overwrote it or somethin like that. Now she is missing all of her my document files. She said it isn't a roaming profile, it is a local profile.

Anyone know how to recover the data from an overwritten local profile's my doccuments folder?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Was the computer rebooted afterwards?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. Below, from the conversation I'm having right now

"no, she didn't create it. she apparently made some changes on the server, probably unintentionally that affected my profile, most likely when she was installing the new anti virus program. so when i re-booted my computer today after lunch, it dumpred my old info and over wrote my profile deleting everything in the process."

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. The data *might* still be on there. I'll get right back to you.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Thanks.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Can she get into Safe mode on the Admin Account?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

6. probably. She's actually on her way back to the office now. The IT

girl is still there messin with it, so my friend is goin there too. Any Ideas? I know a roaming profile would've been easy. But the local profile I'm not sure about. It seems the profile was overwritten, but I would think the data would still have to be around somewhere.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. It might be. She can click on .....

C: Drive - Documents and Settings - {Her old User Profile}

See if there's anything in her App. Data or Local Settings.

:popcorn:

[yellowdogmi]

8. If you right click on the start and go to explore you can try to

find the files that way. You can also go into the file manager. A last resort I would use the dos prompt. type cd.. enter type dir enter. this should give you root directory. from there type cd windows. enter. you should type dir. you should see the my documents folder.
type cd my documents. type dir. do you see your files.
Hope some of this helps. Hope its not all greek