Stop what you are doing and shut down. The more you run your drive, the less likely you are to be able to recover your files. Go to a different computer to download and burn a live data recovery CD with TestDisk or Photorec. Use that to recover your files, or what you can, to a different medium.
Please read The Forum Rules and The Forum Posting Guidelines A thing discovered and kept to oneself must be discovered time and again by others. A thing discovered and shared with others need be discovered only the once. This universe is crazy. I'm going back to my own.
Originally Posted by Frogs Hair I'm not sure why you had important files on a beta version without backup but it matters little now. You not only deleted the account name, but all its contents and may have to wait for data recovery experience. I miss one thing here: How is „beta version“ here guilty of anything and what is it here to be blamed for?
Best recovery tool I've used: http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ This will resurrect files that were deleted 2 years ago. It's a slow and painful process, and doesn't preserve the filenames, but it's enough to hang you in a court_of_law. Enough said? LoL!
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