Re: Cannot load user profile - corrupted profile
From: Roger (djroger_at_mail.com)
Date: 05/12/03
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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 14:38:23 -0700
I am running XP home and my SAM file is corrupt.... I
tried the F8 as below... what can I do to access my
system.... email responce to DJRoger@mail.com... Thankin
you in advance for any help....
>-----Original Message-----
>If a user account registry hive is corrupt, the first
thing to try is to
>reboot, press F8 when the Windows logo appears, and
select "Last Known
>Good". If this doesn't work, we can try to extract the
account registry
>hive from the System Volume Information folder where
System Restore
>keeps its data.
>
>You need to change permissions on the SVI folder in order
to gain read
>access to it. Inside that folder is a folder
named "_restore{...}" and
>inside this folder are RPnnn folders with higher numbered
folders being
>the most recent restore points.
>
>Open the highest numbered RPnnn folder and look in the
\snapshot
>subfolder for
>
>_REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER_S-1-5-21-...-...-...-xxxx
>
>If you look in the registry under
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
>NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList you will find keys with
these security ID
>strings. Look in the long ones for one with an account
ProfileImagePath
>that matches the account whose hive you want to restore.
>
>Note this SID number and then extract the file from
\RPnnn\snapshot that
>matches this SID. This should be the profile ntuser.dat
file. Rename the
>corrupted ntuser.dat file under C:\Documents and
>Settings\user\ntuser.dat to \ntuser.da- and then move and
rename the SVI
>file to ntuser.dat and try to logon to that account.
>
>Of course, if System Restore is not working at all you
may be unable to
>find a \RPnnn\snapshot folder to extract. In this case,
you might as
>well start a new registry hive for that user by creating
a new account
>and copying the old files and shortcuts into that new
account.
>
>I would get ERUNT and make a snapshot of the registry
every day with it
>so you can restore from that utility instead of
extracting from the SVI
>folder.
>
>See the System Restore FAQ at
>http://microsoft.com/technet/itcommunity/Newsgroups/FAQSRW
XP.asp for
>help in getting System Restore functioning properly.
>
>--
>Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
>
>
>
>"Daniel Nancarrow" <exile1981@hotmail.com> wrote in
>message news:045001c316ce$064cdb00$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>
>> I have been unable to access my user profile as i got
>> these two messages this morning at the welcome screen
when
>> turning on my computer:
>>
>> User Enviroment
>>
>> Windows cannot load your profile because it may be
>> corrupted. Contact your administration.
>>
>> User Enviroment:
>> Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you
>> on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this
>> profile will be lost when you log off.
>>
>> Windows XP just logs me on without my settings and I
>> cannot find any of my saved files in games, and cannot
>> find my files from the desktop.
>>
>> I only had one user account for myself.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Daniel
>
>.
>
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