File to Folder

[Brian G.]

I just had a desktop do the darndest thing.

I just replaced a desktop system and when I took the old system to hook it
back up to remove any extra files the user may have left on it, it promptly
died. So after some coaxing I finally managed to do a system restore on the
system to about two days before. When the system came back up everything
seemed ok until I went for the users documents and settings this is when I
noticed some odd things.

First off the directory it was using for the profile was no longer simply
[username] it was now [username]~TMP[#]. Which as you might expect is not
right.

Secondly there were now a fairly extensive list of generic files that appear
to actually be the true user folders as they are simply called by [username].

So, as I am still attempting to recover user documents and settings I need
to know how it might be possible to force a change from a File with no
extensions into a Folder. Is this even possible?

[frankco]

Hi Brian,

It's a little late for this but, when a system dies take the hard drive out
and put it in another computer as a slave to copy the files off. No need to
do a system restore.

You may even want to give that a try to see if the files and foldeer appear
normal after hooking it up as a slave. If not, try a performing a chkdisk /r
and see if that fixes it.

Hope this helps
frankco

"Brian G." wrote:

> I just had a desktop do the darndest thing.
>
> I just replaced a desktop system and when I took the old system to hook it
> back up to remove any extra files the user may have left on it, it promptly
> died. So after some coaxing I finally managed to do a system restore on the
> system to about two days before. When the system came back up everything
> seemed ok until I went for the users documents and settings this is when I
> noticed some odd things.
>
> First off the directory it was using for the profile was no longer simply
> [username] it was now [username]~TMP[#]. Which as you might expect is not
> right.
>
> Secondly there were now a fairly extensive list of generic files that appear
> to actually be the true user folders as they are simply called by [username].
>
> So, as I am still attempting to recover user documents and settings I need
> to know how it might be possible to force a change from a File with no
> extensions into a Folder. Is this even possible?