user profile becoming corrupted

From: nsrbb5 (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/13/04


Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:05:46 -0700

okay i came home last night to find my computer crashed,
blue screen. i hard restarted it and skipped checkdisk
(shoulda run it) and windows wouldn't load. so i
restarted and let checkdisk run. after running and fixing
several corrupted files, windows would now load. i log in
with my usual user profile (the only user profile on my
computer) and windows worked.

this morning i kept getting a windows pop-up saying that
certain file were corrupted and i should run checkdisk.
so i went to command prompt and ran "chkdsk /f" and
restarted. after restart, checkdisk fixed some corrupted
files and windows loaded. at the login screen i typed in
my user (profile) name and password, and while loading
the profile i get the error:

"windows cannot load your user profile, it may be
corrupted". so now i have to log in with this stupid
temporary profile which has NOTHING set up the way i like
it. my questions:

1) what the f happened (to the user profile)
2) how can i fix the user profile? is there anyway to
repair my corrupted profile?
3) the error tells me to "contact the administrator", but
the user profile is the administrator account, what can
the "administrator" do to fix this

this has happened to me once before, with the same
computer, same OS a couple months ago. i couldn't find
out how to fix it, so i had to copy my files from
d:\documents and settings and e:\my documents and create
a new user profile. but NOW i can't delete my previous
profile, because it is the administrator's profile. which
led to me reinstalling windows, which i really don't have
time for right now. all i want is my stupid user profile
back and all my options set up so i can use my computer
properly!!!!

i'm running a dual boot with XP pro and 98se. this error
only pertains to the XP pro install of windows. i have
SP1 installed but not SP2. please someone out there know
what i'm talking about and how to fix this stupid mess



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