Unable to Log in as Admin (logs in as Admin.Computername)

[Guest]

Hello,

I posted this yesterday, but received not a single reply!
Doesn't anyone have an idea of what to do?


Heres the problem:


I have renamed the NTUSER files for the Admin account, in
hopes that windows would create the new files on reboot,
and I can delete the old ones, which swelled up to 10megs.

When I rebooted, I attempted to log in with the usual
user name and pass for the Admin account, which the
system accepted but displayed a Warning box upon "Loading
your settings..." which says "Unable to locate
credentials for the account. But will log you in with
system default." Or something very close to it in
meaning. It then logged me in with Admin.COMPUTERNAME.
I immediately renamed the ntuser.dat files back to the
proper names (they remained in the Documents And
Settings\Amdin directory) and rebooted. Did not work.
Still kept bumping me to a default Admin.COMPUTERNAME
account.

I have 10gigs of somewhat important "green" files on the
Admin account, and since they are green,
Admin.COMPUTERNAME can
not access them. Access Denied, of course. Can not copy
the files, read them, open them...nothing.

Feel free to email me at (e-mail address removed) if you think
you have a solution to this seemingly dead-end problem.

thanks to all concerned...

Andrew

 

[Phil]

Try this:

1 - do a system restore back to a day before you changed things and renamed
files.

2 - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421
Then after you do the above and back things up, a repair install may fix the
prob you created.

 

[Andrew]

Thanks for the suggestion, but System Restore was
disabled on that drive for security reasons.

Any other ideas?