User Profile Problem

[Felix]

Everytime i turn on my comp, Windows XP Home Edition
loads up fine until I get to the "user select" screen.
When that screen comes up, I get an error that says
something like "Windows could not load the specified user
profile, so has logged you on with the default user
profile. Details - Windows tried to load the file, but
the file is not in registry format.".
Anyone know how to fix this. Any help would be much
appreciated.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Felix,

See if this helps/applies in your case:

Logon to another account with admin privilege and run System Restore.
Choose the most recent restore point and SR should restore the user
hives.

Or...

Boot into safe mode and log in as Administrator. Copy ntuser.dat from
%windir%\repair to "Documents and Settings\[your user id]". Now do a system
restore to a point in time prior to when the corruption message began to
appear.

Or...

Relocate NTUserdat

Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the profile you want to change and
then change ProfileImagePath to the ntuser.dat folder that you want to use.
You must manually copy or move the ntuser.dat file there.

Corrupt Hive
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545

Recovery Console Fix for XP SP1 (Line 58)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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