Q318011 - Error Message Windows Cannot Load Your Profile Because It May Be
Corrupted: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318011[/url]
811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151[/url]
These were written for XP, but the idea is the same. Be sure to 'run as
administrator' when you open Explorer.
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"Justin A. Motsch" <Justin A. [email]Motsch@discussions.microsoft.com[/email]> wrote in
message news:5EF83E3A-F1C1-4050-88AD-80C51ABFAFC8@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> This afternoon my 20 month old daughter climbed up to my laptop and held
> down
> the power button so that Windows Vista Home Premium Booted and then
> imediately shut down and began to reboot again. A black screen indicating
> that Windows had not properly booted and I could boot as normal or go with
> the system recommeded option, which I had assumed at the time was simply a
> scan to ensure Windows was working properly. I selected the later. My
> system
> went into what I think is recovery mode and began to make "images" of the
> data and it seems that Vista re-formatted itself so that I was prompted
> after
> all was said and done to create a new user profile. I would like to
> restore
> the old profile with 11 GBs worth of invaluable data, but I'm not entirely
> certain what happened, nor how to restore the original profile. I know the
> size of my hard drive partitions did not change and when I view the Users
> file in my primary partition the original profile is there. Any advice or
> direction on where I could read a tutorial to figure this out would be
> greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.[/color]