NewSID disaster 500.000$ involved. Other Vista Discussions Discuss NewSID disaster 500.000$ involved. in the Windows Vista forums; Hello, Can you please help me, I have "lost" my data from pc after using NewSID. I tried to change sid and then after 40 min of display ...

[mikica]

Hello,
Can you please help me, I have "lost" my data from pc after using NewSID. I tried to change sid and then after 40 min of display message "changing new sid" I restarted computer. After reboot I got an little surprise, All my files are gone, some programs loaded from programfiles. Then I saw that there are two users in the user folder, before, was only one called "mis" (no password) and now there is this second user"mis.mis-PC" from here I can access program files, documents (empty), desktop (empty) but I cannot use most of the operations that use "user account control" so I cannot access user "mis" because popup asks me to enter password to gain control, but there is no field to enter password and the "OK" button is grey (nonclickable). When I want to switch user there are: "mis" and "other user" icons. Same problems are found using any of them...
Can you please help I have data of my work form 6 months ago, ( I know backup , backup...) and losing of that data would be disastrous for my work 500.000$ value ( I know: backup , backup...), but please if you could help me with this, it’ll save my life. Thank you.

[budeone]

When you boot to safe mode to get into admin to do a system restore what happens?

[mikica]

thanks for reply , when in safemode it asks me to gain permission and to enter password, its window with grey OK button, non clickable OK, and cancel - clickable.

[mikica]

[jpfieber]

You could try this tip to reset the password on the original account, then login to that account and access the files:

http://itsvista.com/2007/04/itsvista...-a-reset-disc/

[budeone]

Thnaks jpfieber

I am adding that to my list of cool tricks.

[Znod]

Hi budeone. I have always liked your sig. I have never been able to do a system restore while in safe mode.

[budeone]

Thanks...

I know rstrui has saved me a few times in XP. I have not tried it in Vista yet myself. PC Magazine a few months back says it can be done. I may just have to try it on Tuesday and see. I would hate to think I can do it and find out when I need it I cant. That would be bad!!

[Znod]

You are very welcome. I have never used rstrui.exe directly. Are you talking about using it directly? Regardless, I have used Vista system restore many, many times--especially in the early Vista beta days. For one thing, I, when possible, do a retore back to a point before when I installed a program I have just uninstalled.

[budeone]

The command is %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

I have had a very hard time resoring when using Vista. I am not sure if its my hardware config or something else. When I use on XP I dont recall having any problems if I catch it quick. Sometimes nobody calls me until its way to late to use system restore. I have had times where there is no restore point to go to because someone turned it off or was messing around in there before they called me.

In Vista machines I get after waiting 15-20 min that it was unable to resore and I have to reinstall Vista.

To be fair, I thing it was when I was messing around with the new version of Nero and I went to Roxio and have had no Vista problems since.

The funny thing is with Roxio I cant use System works. Either Roxio or Symantec needs to find a fix.