Cannot create new user profiles

[Steve]

I'm running XP Pro undated to SP1.

I can create new users in the control panel but this does not create the profile on the C: drive. When I reboot the PC the new user name exists on the logon screen but when select it I get the error message theat the profile cannot be found.

Can anyone help?

Cheers

Steve

[Kelly]

Hi Steve,

Suggestions:

Right click My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device Manager. Locate the
entries for your hard disks and double click each entry. On the Policies
tab, uncheck Enable write caching.

You will see a performance decrease because of this, but if the corrupt
registry/user profiles problems cease, then you'll be certain of the cause.

Logon to another account with admin privilege and run System Restore.
Choose the most recent restore point and SR should restore the user
hives.

Or...

Boot into safe mode and log in as Administrator. Copy ntuser.dat from
%windir%\repair to "Documents and Settings\[your user id]". Now do a system
restore to a point in time prior to when the corruption message began to
appear.

Or...

Relocate NTUserdat

Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the profile you want to change
and then change ProfileImagePath to the ntuser.dat folder that you want to
use. You must manually copy or move the ntuser.dat file there.

Corrupt Hive
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545

Recovery Console Fix for XP SP1 (Line 58)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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All the Best,
Kelly

MS-MVP Win98/XP
[AE-Windows® XP]

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

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http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm


"Steve" > wrote in message
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> I'm running XP Pro undated to SP1.
>
> I can create new users in the control panel but this does not create the
profile on the C: drive. When I reboot the PC the new user name exists on
the logon screen but when select it I get the error message theat the
profile cannot be found.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
>