Richard Rohrdanz wrote:

> The Tablet manufacturer's tech support had me run their Recovery
> and Utility CD to recreate Windows XP on the C: drive. Instead
> their program formatted my external hard drive instead of the C:
> drive and wiped out my only Complete Backup plus numerous other
> backup files. Somehow all of the System Restore points have been
> deleted except for the one that could not complete normally.

A true Disaster, for sure.
Some of the Recovery tools work by wiping the hard-drive and just wipe
*all* drives.
Therefore one always should detach external drives when running
recovery.

> I can see all of my data folders and program folders. When I try to
> execute a program it thinks I am a new user. None of the settings
> in my Registry are available since I am actually logged on to the
> new (erroneous) account.
>
> If I could trick Windows into letting me get into my own account I
> think everything would be back to normal.

I'm not an expert in this field and I have hardly been doing things with
XP for a year or so. And I fear that this might hardly be possible or
rather difficult.
Logging in with the "Administrator" account would at least enable you to
save the data (which in case would be the most important thing to do).

> I am sending my external hard drive to a lab to see if anything can
> be recovered from it.

Good luck. Depending on the way the wiping tool did work there might be
a chance. But it might cost a lot.

As the traffic in here has been rather low during the last months and
your problem is a normal Windows problem which AFAICS has nothing to do
with special issues of a TabletPC and/or is OS specific issues, I would
recommend to ask again in one of the NGs in the
"microsoft.public.windowsxp" hierarchy where you would meet the
specialists.

All the best
Rainald