Corrupt Profile and missing start menu/desktop icons

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Craig

The other day I rebooted a Windows 2000 Pro machine to
find that the primary user's profile had become
corrupted. Since I have been managing large scale Windows
networks for quite some time now, I have seen profiles get
corrupted and I am familiar with the procedures for
restoring them.

After restoring this profile, I found that the content of
the user's start menu directory and desktop were missing
about 2/3s of their original content. The missing content
was not in the "All Users" or "Default User" profile. In
addition, a large number of registry settings that I am
assuming were stored in the NTUSER.dat file (which is
corrupt) are gone including registration info for programs
and VPN sub-system settings for a Cisco VPN client. These
shortcuts and these settings are very important.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this? If anyone can
help me recover the missing files, I would greatly
appreciate it. I have searched the hard drive and they
are no where to be find. (These are not roaming profiles
BTW.)

Thanks,
Craig
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Not sure what you're searching for. Any files normally should still exist
within the corrupt profile. Possibly lost to a bad block on the disk.
 
That is my problem, after the profile became corrupt a
whole bunch of files were missing. I have done hard disk
integrity checks using chkdsk and some more thorough
tools, but the disk seems to be fine. Also, if there was
a bad block, I would expect to see files outside of the
user profile missing. As far as I can tell, that is not
the case.
-Craig
-----Original Message-----
Not sure what you're searching for. Any files normally should still exist
within the corrupt profile. Possibly lost to a bad block on the disk.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Craig said:
The other day I rebooted a Windows 2000 Pro machine to
find that the primary user's profile had become
corrupted. Since I have been managing large scale Windows
networks for quite some time now, I have seen profiles get
corrupted and I am familiar with the procedures for
restoring them.

After restoring this profile, I found that the content of
the user's start menu directory and desktop were missing
about 2/3s of their original content. The missing content
was not in the "All Users" or "Default User" profile. In
addition, a large number of registry settings that I am
assuming were stored in the NTUSER.dat file (which is
corrupt) are gone including registration info for programs
and VPN sub-system settings for a Cisco VPN client. These
shortcuts and these settings are very important.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this? If anyone can
help me recover the missing files, I would greatly
appreciate it. I have searched the hard drive and they
are no where to be find. (These are not roaming profiles
BTW.)

Thanks,
Craig
(e-mail address removed)
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This may or may not help you... But I have seen that
sometimes if a password becomes corrupt the profile can
overwrite or corrupt itself... I've been able to recover a
large portion of the lost files using data recovery or
undeleting software an easy one that can be used from
remote and is fairly light weight is http://www.file-
recovery.net it seemed to work well for me but hurry
before the disk locations are over writen if it is a
roaming profile check the local HD before the server

Sasha
-----Original Message-----
That is my problem, after the profile became corrupt a
whole bunch of files were missing. I have done hard disk
integrity checks using chkdsk and some more thorough
tools, but the disk seems to be fine. Also, if there was
a bad block, I would expect to see files outside of the
user profile missing. As far as I can tell, that is not
the case.
-Craig
-----Original Message-----
Not sure what you're searching for. Any files normally should still exist
within the corrupt profile. Possibly lost to a bad block on the disk.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Craig said:
The other day I rebooted a Windows 2000 Pro machine to
find that the primary user's profile had become
corrupted. Since I have been managing large scale Windows
networks for quite some time now, I have seen profiles get
corrupted and I am familiar with the procedures for
restoring them.

After restoring this profile, I found that the content of
the user's start menu directory and desktop were missing
about 2/3s of their original content. The missing content
was not in the "All Users" or "Default User" profile. In
addition, a large number of registry settings that I am
assuming were stored in the NTUSER.dat file (which is
corrupt) are gone including registration info for programs
and VPN sub-system settings for a Cisco VPN client. These
shortcuts and these settings are very important.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this? If anyone can
help me recover the missing files, I would greatly
appreciate it. I have searched the hard drive and they
are no where to be find. (These are not roaming profiles
BTW.)

Thanks,
Craig
(e-mail address removed)
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