Recover a deleted profile???

NT? Windows95/98?
A login script that stores profile on Home DIrectory?

If the user account is deleted from Active Directory or the local computer (depending on which you are using) the profile can sometimes remain in the "Documents and Settings" folder on whichever drive you installed Windows 2000 on. This profile is not usable by any other user normally but you can change this with the following procudure:

1. Log on as an account with Administrator rights to that machine.
2. Right-click "My Computer" and choose Properties from the menu.
3. Select the "User Profiles" tab and then highlight the profile you need to recover. Hit the "Copy To" button.
4. Use the browse button to find a new location for the profile, or choose the old location (It will overwrite the data).
5. Click on the "Permitted to Use" button and select the user account you wish to be able to make use of the profile. This will allow the user to log on using the profile.
6. Use Active Directory Users and Computers to configure the user account to use that profile normally.

You need to open the "Documents and Settings" folder on your hard drive. It is found on the same drive you installed Windows 2000 on.

Because you are working in a peer-to-peer environment with no Active Directory you are using local profiles. Ifthe profile still exists there will be a folder in the "Documents and Settings" folder that is named the same as the user account. If that folder is not there the account is gone forever. If that folder is there the contents of the profile are stillintact.

You might also see several folders with .000 extensions or other strangely named profile folders. If you do this is caused by another problem entirely.

Describe the contents of your "Documents and Settings" folder to me and we'll go from there.