Guest kerrihelp Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 Everytime I restart my pc and login it creates a temporary profile and reverts back to all factory settings. My documents folder is empty,no financial data,no email messages etc. Its asks me to set up programs. It makes a beeping sound almost like quite telephone ringing. The message I get is this: windows cannot load the locally stored profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Any changes you make to this profile will be lost when you leave. HELP!!!
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 Re: My pc boots back to factory settings, all data is lost "kerrihelp" <kerrihelp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:17776C00-043C-42C0-8C26-18E6027A0F85@microsoft.com... > Everytime I restart my pc and login it creates a temporary profile and > reverts back to all factory settings. My documents folder is empty,no > financial data,no email messages etc. Its asks me to set up programs. It > makes a beeping sound almost like quite telephone ringing. The message I > get is this: windows cannot load the locally stored profile and is > logging > you on with a temporary profile. Any changes you make to this profile will > be > lost when you leave. HELP!!! This usually happens when you log on under the Guest account.
Guest R. McCarty Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 Re: My pc boots back to factory settings, all data is lost Unless you've taken some radical approaches, your existing data should still be on the PC. The issue is that each users specific settings are stored in a file called NTUser.Dat. When a person logs in that database is used to load your profile. (Windows Settings, Background....) It's likely the profile itself is unrecoverable, but the data is still in tact. User data is stored in the path \Documents and Settings\'YourLoginName'. The best thing at this point is to backup the complete folder tree under your login name. Once you have this on a permanent media like a CD-R or DVD-R then you can create a new profile and recover your old and previous data into it. As to the beeping that is an indication of some kind of error. It's possible the Hard Drive in the computer may be failing. It's important that you backup your data as soon as possible. "kerrihelp" <kerrihelp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:17776C00-043C-42C0-8C26-18E6027A0F85@microsoft.com... > Everytime I restart my pc and login it creates a temporary profile and > reverts back to all factory settings. My documents folder is empty,no > financial data,no email messages etc. Its asks me to set up programs. It > makes a beeping sound almost like quite telephone ringing. The message I > get is this: windows cannot load the locally stored profile and is > logging > you on with a temporary profile. Any changes you make to this profile will > be > lost when you leave. HELP!!!
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 Re: My pc boots back to factory settings, all data is lost 1. Leave the machine turned-off. 2. Take the machine to a local, reputable and independent (i.e., not BigBoxStoreUSA or Geek Squad) computer repair shop. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ kerrihelp wrote: > Everytime I restart my pc and login it creates a temporary profile and > reverts back to all factory settings. My documents folder is empty,no > financial data,no email messages etc. Its asks me to set up programs. It > makes a beeping sound almost like quite telephone ringing. The message I > get is this: windows cannot load the locally stored profile and is > logging > you on with a temporary profile. Any changes you make to this profile will > be lost when you leave. HELP!!!
Guest Kelly Posted September 20, 2008 Posted September 20, 2008 Re: My pc boots back to factory settings, all data is lost Error Message: Windows Cannot Load Your Profile Because It May Be Corrupted http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318011 Create a New User or Restore the User Profile http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318011 Added info: Logon to another account with admin privilege and run System Restore. Choose the most recent restore point and SR should restore the user hives. Or... Boot into safe mode and log in as Administrator. Copy ntuser.dat from %windir%\repair to "Documents and Settings\[your user id]". Now do a system restore to a point in time prior to when the corruption message began to appear. Or... Relocate NTUserdat Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the profile you want to change and then change ProfileImagePath to the ntuser.dat folder that you want to use. You must manually copy or move the ntuser.dat file there. Corrupt Hive http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545 Recovering XP using the Recover Console (Line 333) Right hand side: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm SupportSpace http://www.supportspace.com/pages?aiu=kellyskorner "kerrihelp" <kerrihelp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:17776C00-043C-42C0-8C26-18E6027A0F85@microsoft.com... > Everytime I restart my pc and login it creates a temporary profile and > reverts back to all factory settings. My documents folder is empty,no > financial data,no email messages etc. Its asks me to set up programs. It > makes a beeping sound almost like quite telephone ringing. The message I > get is this: windows cannot load the locally stored profile and is > logging > you on with a temporary profile. Any changes you make to this profile will > be > lost when you leave. HELP!!!
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