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.

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]