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Missing Administrator Folder profile Win7 Ult.
OK, I'll try and cover everything leading up to issue to give complete idea, so bear with me here as it started with a snowflake and now this giant snow boulder is barreling out of control.
Originally Win 7 Ultimate started having issues that could NOT be repaired regardless of method. Decided to wipe a Win XP HD and load a fresh Win 7 there, as this allowed me to keep all old info which I can access from the "New Win 7" OS. For the record, I have TWO HD, both with Win 7 (New and Old) Ultimate loaded, and BOTH drives are partitioned.
While on the "New" OS today, I had to access the "Old" HD via selecting the drive from the New OS as I needed to manually copy a text file over. So I had "Users" folder open, then selected my old administrator folder. While in there, saw a bunch of files that weren't familiar (I've show hidden files active for years and not sure why I never noticed them before). I clicked the rename option on the 1st NT.LOG file and opened Chromodo, pasted it in there to do a quick search on what it was, then when I went back to the "Users" folder, my old Admin. folder was completely missing? It's supposed to be locked (folder with lock icon next to it), so NO idea how it was even able to get moved or how it was moved/deleted? Even if the LOG file was inadvertently renamed, I'm completely BAFFLED how that would erase the entire Administrator folder.
Anyways, tried reopening the drive thinking maybe it was a glitch, and nothing. Botting the Old OS would hang at the welcome screen after entering password. Dug old my old ERD disc to see if the folder would "reappear" from a non windows OS, and it was most definitely missing. Started opening the default user and saw the admin. name as a folder there? Clicked it, and amazingly it WAS there. Everything from desktop files, to the LOG and other system files were intact.
I was relieved as I could at least manually access some folders still important and quickly copied everything to fresh OS drive so I'd at least have back-ups.
I opened my new OS Users-> Default and my New OS admin. Files are NOT present there. So if I had to guess, somehow the old Admin. folder was either duplicated or moved. What's also odd is there's nearly 26gb of info there. I tried manually copying back and it took nearly 15 minutes. If it WAS moved there, it did it w/o a file copy box and basically did it instantly.
Completely stumped here. Any idea how a protected system folder's contents could instantly move to another folder altogether? Also, while trying to copy it back to the "Users" directory, go a few warnings about a couple folders not being able to be moved due to being protected, so I doubt I'll be able to load that admin. account anymore.