Hi Guys! I came in to office today and suddenly my Windows Server 2003 DC has crashed for unknows reasons, no errors in event viewer. i couldn't log in as administrator. Anyways, in Safe mode i renamed the administrator folder and logged in again. Now the old administrator folder which the size is 3.76GB when u go into the folder you cannot see the Desktop Folder and the size of all the rest of the Folder including the hidden ones are 529MB. Could you please help me out recover my desktop folder? there are a bunch of stuff 3GB that i need! Please help! Thank you! Rima

Hi Reamzz, There's no a magic way to recover the info. Do you have a backup? Or did you have shadowcopies working in C: volume? If so, then you cna restore the info or go back to a last point with VSS. If not, you will need to go ahead with some 3rd Party Tools as Ontrack Easy Recovery. I'm sorry. Julio Rosua

Hey Julio! The recovery tools aren't finding any lost files! Any other ideas? Thx Reamzz

Hi, It's really strange, I've recovered a lot of info with OnTrack, some of them deleted months before trying to recover it... The problem you describe points to some disk physical problem, maybe corrupted cluster so the Ontrack or any other 3rd party can not access to the parts of disk with the non-available info. I'm sorry for you, but I think you will need to assume the lost :-( Regards.

What roles is the server running? Do you have any Folder Redirection Policy in your infrastructure? What about shadow copies like Julio asked? When you right click the Administrator account folder do you have a tab Previous Versions?MCTS - Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. http://mariusene.wordpress.com/