Windows 10: Restore Users and Program Data Folders to Original Drive

Anyone know how to restore these folders to their original drive after they were moved during sysprep

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kb4074588 nightmare

After installing kb4074588 i have lost my whole user profile, all of my original program files and program files x86 folders, absolute nightmare. Performed a system restore and still the same. Most of my original folders and now in a windows.old
folder on each of my 5 hard drives. I now have to set everything up again, install all my programs etc.

 

System Recovery - Question

Hi Jerry,

With regard to your query, creating a System Image and backing up a system to recovery drive is different.

If you will back up a system to a recovery drive, it will restore the computer to the original factory condition, but it will not restore user installed programs or user data.

If you will create a System Image, it will allow creating a full hard drive backup to a separate hard drive. It will also allow restoring the complete hard drive back to how it was when the last backup was created. It includes the Operating System and installed
programs and all user data.

Doing a second recovery depends on the size of your external hard drive but it will not overwrite the first recovery if you have a partition.

Let us know if it answered your query.

Regards.

 

This is for Windows 7: User Folders - Restore Default Location - Windows 7 Help Forums

Should work for 8.1 also.

 

Both the users and program data folders were moved using an answer file.
The tutorial above is different and does not restore program data.
Do most people here have two drives, one OS and second for data?