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Cannot load user profile - corrupted profile
I have been unable to access my user profile as i got
these two messages this morning at the welcome screen when turning on my computer: User Enviroment Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted. Contact your administration. User Enviroment: Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Windows XP just logs me on without my settings and I cannot find any of my saved files in games, and cannot find my files from the desktop. I only had one user account for myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Daniel |
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Cannot load user profile - corrupted profile
If a user account registry hive is corrupt, the first thing to try is to
reboot, press F8 when the Windows logo appears, and select "Last Known Good". If this doesn't work, we can try to extract the account registry hive from the System Volume Information folder where System Restore keeps its data. You need to change permissions on the SVI folder in order to gain read access to it. Inside that folder is a folder named "_restore{...}" and inside this folder are RPnnn folders with higher numbered folders being the most recent restore points. Open the highest numbered RPnnn folder and look in the \snapshot subfolder for _REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER_S-1-5-21-...-...-...-xxxx If you look in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList you will find keys with these security ID strings. Look in the long ones for one with an account ProfileImagePath that matches the account whose hive you want to restore. Note this SID number and then extract the file from \RPnnn\snapshot that matches this SID. This should be the profile ntuser.dat file. Rename the corrupted ntuser.dat file under C:\Documents and Settings\user\ntuser.dat to \ntuser.da- and then move and rename the SVI file to ntuser.dat and try to logon to that account. Of course, if System Restore is not working at all you may be unable to find a \RPnnn\snapshot folder to extract. In this case, you might as well start a new registry hive for that user by creating a new account and copying the old files and shortcuts into that new account. I would get ERUNT and make a snapshot of the registry every day with it so you can restore from that utility instead of extracting from the SVI folder. See the System Restore FAQ at http://microsoft.com/technet/itcommu...s/FAQSRWXP.asp for help in getting System Restore functioning properly. -- Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows "Daniel Nancarrow" wrote in message ... I have been unable to access my user profile as i got these two messages this morning at the welcome screen when turning on my computer: User Enviroment Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted. Contact your administration. User Enviroment: Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. Windows XP just logs me on without my settings and I cannot find any of my saved files in games, and cannot find my files from the desktop. I only had one user account for myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Daniel |
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Cannot load user profile - corrupted profile
Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin:64060
A corrupt SAM file is not the same as a corrupt user account hive. Your problem is not related to the problem under discussion in this thread. -- Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows "Roger" wrote in message ... I am running XP home and my SAM file is corrupt.... -----Original Message----- If a user account registry hive is corrupt, ... |
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Cannot load user profile - corrupted profile
Hi Roger;
Thank you for posting! For the corrupt hive file, you may refer to the following articles to restore it: Q307545:How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry That Prevents Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;EN-US;307545 Hope this helps! Have a great day! Sincerely, Damon Xu MCSE2000, MCDBA2000 Microsoft Partner Online Support Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security ================================================== == When responding to posts, please Reply to Group via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue. ================================================== == This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights. -------------------- | Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message | From: "Roger" | Sender: "Roger" | References: | Subject: Cannot load user profile - corrupted profile | Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 14:38:23 -0700 | Lines: 102 | Message-ID: | MIME-Version: 1.0 | Content-Type: text/plain; | charset="iso-8859-1" | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit | X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 | X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 | Thread-Index: AcMYztBVo1bShe5FQuiRMzKAlw25Lg== | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin | Path: cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl | Xref: cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin:58640 | NNTP-Posting-Host: TK2MSFTNGXS01 10.40.2.125 | X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin | | I am running XP home and my SAM file is corrupt.... I | tried the F8 as below... what can I do to access my | system.... email responce to ... Thankin | you in advance for any help.... | | -----Original Message----- | If a user account registry hive is corrupt, the first | thing to try is to | reboot, press F8 when the Windows logo appears, and | select "Last Known | Good". If this doesn't work, we can try to extract the | account registry | hive from the System Volume Information folder where | System Restore | keeps its data. | | You need to change permissions on the SVI folder in order | to gain read | access to it. Inside that folder is a folder | named "_restore{...}" and | inside this folder are RPnnn folders with higher numbered | folders being | the most recent restore points. | | Open the highest numbered RPnnn folder and look in the | \snapshot | subfolder for | | _REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER_S-1-5-21-...-...-...-xxxx | | If you look in the registry under | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows | NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList you will find keys with | these security ID | strings. Look in the long ones for one with an account | ProfileImagePath | that matches the account whose hive you want to restore. | | Note this SID number and then extract the file from | \RPnnn\snapshot that | matches this SID. This should be the profile ntuser.dat | file. Rename the | corrupted ntuser.dat file under C:\Documents and | Settings\user\ntuser.dat to \ntuser.da- and then move and | rename the SVI | file to ntuser.dat and try to logon to that account. | | Of course, if System Restore is not working at all you | may be unable to | find a \RPnnn\snapshot folder to extract. In this case, | you might as | well start a new registry hive for that user by creating | a new account | and copying the old files and shortcuts into that new | account. | | I would get ERUNT and make a snapshot of the registry | every day with it | so you can restore from that utility instead of | extracting from the SVI | folder. | | See the System Restore FAQ at | http://microsoft.com/technet/itcommu...sgroups/FAQSRW | XP.asp for | help in getting System Restore functioning properly. | | -- | Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows | | | | "Daniel Nancarrow" wrote in | message ... | | I have been unable to access my user profile as i got | these two messages this morning at the welcome screen | when | turning on my computer: | | User Enviroment | | Windows cannot load your profile because it may be | corrupted. Contact your administration. | | User Enviroment: | Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you | on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this | profile will be lost when you log off. | | Windows XP just logs me on without my settings and I | cannot find any of my saved files in games, and cannot | find my files from the desktop. | | I only had one user account for myself. | | Any help would be greatly appreciated. | | Daniel | | . | | |
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