when I turned on guest account it corrupted NTUSER.DAT file

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Hi. I wanted to set up a guest account to enhance security when others ask
to use my PC. I have Windows XP Home SP2 installed on a Pentium 3 PC. I
turned on the guest account and it somehow corrupted the NTUSER.DAT file
which I was able to restore using Windows Disk Checker. The file had
developed bad sectors which WDC fixed. While the file was corrupted it threw
away my user profile - I have the administrator account. Has anyone had this
problem and if son, how did you fix it? Thanks.
 
Herb said:
Hi. I wanted to set up a guest account to enhance security when others ask
to use my PC. I have Windows XP Home SP2 installed on a Pentium 3 PC. I
turned on the guest account and it somehow corrupted the NTUSER.DAT file
which I was able to restore using Windows Disk Checker. The file had
developed bad sectors which WDC fixed.

Files do not develop bad sectors - bad sectors (hard drive issue) may
develop corrupted files.
Has anyone had this problem

No. Bad sectors may render the *entire* system useless. Backup all
important data before that drive is going south entirely.
and if son, how did you fix it?

"Check for Disk Errors in Windows XP"
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/kbtip.mspx

If bad sectors start to show up, any attempt to fix may or may not work.
Anyway, any success is just temporarily until the next bad sector appears.
 
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