Restore "lost" user after Active Directory removal?

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Published on 2012-11-12T19:09:06Z Indexed on 2012/11/12 23:03 UTC
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Is it possible to restore lost users after Active Directory unistallation ? (I forgot to switch users to local users) The computer run Windows Server 2008 R2 Entreprise, and all the registry linked to the user i want to restore seems to still be there, user's folder is still on the harddrive, and useraccount2 still show the user (But flagged as unknown user)

Some folders still have rigts set to this lost user, and even the local default Admin account cannot open/delete the folder. (But the real problem here is to find how to recover users account, the folder can be deleted an other way)

All users i want te restore was originaly local users, converted to domain users after Active Directory installation.

I think that if i can change user's sid (choosing the sid manually) i'll be able to easily recover rights on folders

Regards

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