Profile gone after removing active directory?

[Savas Ates]

I tried to install actice directory. After my ad installation i saw that i
misconfigured my Dns and i removed my active directory. I adjusted my Dns
settings and i installed Active directoru 2nd time. When i log on as
administrator account i saw that my previous administrator user profile has
gone. It is a new administrator user profile. I want my old administrator
user profile. I tried to copy by following Control Panel --System --
Advanced -- User Profile --Copy to

I wasnt able to click to Copy to button because it was deactivated.

When i check C:\documentsettings\
There was 2 administrator account.

One is administrator (my old profile with all desktop and my document
settings.)
Another one is administrator.MYDOMAINNAME (my new an admis user profile)

I want to use my old administrator user profile setting.

How can i do it ? If you give me a way which explain it step by step it will
be appreciated.

 

[Jorge Silva]

Hi
You can copy that profile directly, or you can logon with another Admin
account and rebuild that profile. Copy everything except the NTUSER.DAT and
log.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.
Jorge Silva
MCSE

 

[Paul Williams [MVP]]

Set the permissions on the old one so you can access it. You're actually
talking about two different user objects.

Or, create a new [temporary] admin account, logon on as that and copy the
old one to the new administrator account. It's grayed out because you're
logged on. Then logon as the admin again and remove the temporary account.

 

[Guest]

I changed the new profile's Path as old one's path in the registery and
everthing seems ok for now

 

[Herb Martin]

Hi
You can copy that profile directly, or you can logon with another Admin
account and rebuild that profile. Copy everything except the NTUSER.DAT
and log.

Curious:: Why not NTUser.dat?

 

[Herb Martin]

I changed the new profile's Path as old one's path in the registery and
everthing seems ok for now

If that works for you it is good solutions since it avoids the problem
of some programs will use the profile locations with hard coded
paths (e.g., maybe Outlook pointing at PST files) that don't depend
on the environment variable %userprofile%.

One one machine I did the plain copy "old" to "new" and when I
found programs with such hard coded paths I ended up making
an LindD "Juntion point" (alias directory) with the old name
pointing to the new name directory.

 

[Jorge Silva]

when you're logged and do a direct copy the file is in use so you can't do I
direct copy.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.
Jorge Silva
MCSE

 

[Herb Martin]

when you're logged and do a direct copy the file is in use so you can't do
I direct copy.

Ok, since you said logged in as another user that problem doesn't
apply (and without that NTUser.dat you will lose a lot of settings).

I was concerned you knew of a problem that hadn't occurred to me.

When I use "xcopy" I just add the "/c" continue on error switch so
that trying and failing to copy this file (or others) is not a problem.

I mentioned in another post that (sometimes) I just rename these
directories to avoid the copy (while logged on in another account
to avoid locked files) and have to build a Junction Point to cover
programs that have hardcoded the path.

 

[Jorge Silva]

Ok, since you said logged in as another user that problem doesn't

apply (and without that NTUser.dat you will lose a lot of settings).

Yep, correct.

I was concerned you knew of a problem that hadn't occurred to me.

Actually I already had some problems, that only were resolved by creating a
new profile (loading a new Ntuser.dat from default user) and then coping
everythin excep those, aonother one is the usrClass.dat that cause some
problems whenpcs were imaged with sysprep

When I use "xcopy" I just add the "/c" continue on error switch so
that trying and failing to copy this file (or others) is not a problem.

That's another way to do the same thing.

I mentioned in another post that (sometimes) I just rename these
directories to avoid the copy (while logged on in another account
to avoid locked files) and have to build a Junction Point to cover
programs that have hardcoded the path.

Nice.

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I hope that the information above helps you.
Have a Nice day.
Jorge Silva
MCSE