Recovering a corrupted user profile

[Guest]

HI,

Yesterday I booted my PC and tried to login but received the following
message:
'Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted. Contact your
administrator' followed by 'Windows cannot find your local profile...'

This is bad. I am of course, 10 hours into my taxes on this PC...
I have logged in using another user account, as well as the Admin account,
both successfully.
I ran a checkdisk on my next boot, but no change.
I tried to copy the user profile in question using System
Properties|Advanced|User Profiles, but that failed.
I am currently running a full system image and am about 8 hours into that
(big system).

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to recover from this?

Thanks!
Glenn

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Error Message: "Windows Cannot Load the Locally Stored Profile"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812339/en-us

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Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
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| HI,
|
| Yesterday I booted my PC and tried to login but received the following
| message:
| 'Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted. Contact your
| administrator' followed by 'Windows cannot find your local profile...'
|
| This is bad. I am of course, 10 hours into my taxes on this PC...
| I have logged in using another user account, as well as the Admin account,
| both successfully.
| I ran a checkdisk on my next boot, but no change.
| I tried to copy the user profile in question using System
| Properties|Advanced|User Profiles, but that failed.
| I am currently running a full system image and am about 8 hours into that
| (big system).
|
| Does anyone have any suggestions on how to recover from this?
|
| Thanks!
| Glenn

 

[sandy58]

System restore?

 

[sandy58]

Start>all programs>accessories>system tools>system
restore.............and go back a few days.

 

[Guest]

Interesting article, but how does this help me recover the original user
profile and all its settings stored under its username folder?

-Glenn

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

"Windows cannot load your profile because it may be corrupted"
error message when you try to log on to Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318011/en-us

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151/

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| Interesting article, but how does this help me recover the original user
| profile and all its settings stored under its username folder?
|
| -Glenn

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the additional link Carey.

Unfortunately that procedure is missing a step - you must logon using the
newly created user account to create and populate the user profile folders..

After I identified that problem & copied the 20gb of files to the new user
profile (5 times - don't ask), I was able to gain access to much of the
information I needed.

More unfortunately, all my Outlook information was lost - 12 email accounts,
all email for 5 years, calendar likewise, etc... Most applications no longer
worked as before (were dumb to me). So although I am able to put out the fire
by completing my taxes, I now must completely rebuild this PC - not looking
forward to another 40 hours of application installations & customization, not
to mention the 24 hours it took me to get here.

 

[Guest]

Hi sandy58,

I tried this & it did not restore what I needed, actually it failed to work
at all, giving me an unrecoverable message. I did go back a day before I ran
into troubles...

I am not sure that system restore even addresses teh user profile issue. I
think it is more of a system & drivers utility.

Thanks anyway!

 

[John Wunderlich]

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More unfortunately, all my Outlook information was lost - 12 email
accounts, all email for 5 years, calendar likewise, etc... Most
applications no longer worked as before (were dumb to me). So
although I am able to put out the fire by completing my taxes, I
now must completely rebuild this PC - not looking forward to
another 40 hours of application installations & customization, not
to mention the 24 hours it took me to get here.

Outlook info may not be lost.
Outlook Express files are saved in the folder:
c:\documents and settings\<user>\local settings\application data\Identities

(several of these directories are hidden)
Look for *.dbx files

Outlook may be similar. It might be worth a check before you wipe all.

HTH,
John