Guest brain_wired Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 All, I have a dual boot system with XP and Ubuntu linux peacefully coexisting. today when i logged into my xp account i was shocked to see my files missing from the desktop and my documents. i went to documents and settings and found out that a new profile ' my account name. computer name' was created and xp was loading settings from this profile instead 'my account name' profile . All my files from my account are intact but it doesnt load when it should. i cannot delete this new profile either as its a windows file. also i have been getting the blue screen of death. any ideas ??
Guest Ian Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 RE: XP created new profile and loads from it It sounds like you have suffered disk corruption. This "sidestepping" of the profile is an automatic response to a situation where the registry seciton of the profile (NTUSER.DAT) cannot be opened. Do you use hibernation in either OS? If so this can lead to data corruption if you modify files within a hibernated OS's partition. This is because when the memory 'snapshot' is reloaded, the contents of those files will no longer match what the running programs expect them to be.
Guest brain_wired Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 Re: XP created new profile and loads from it On Jul 24, 1:36 pm, Ian <I...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > It sounds like you have suffered disk corruption. This "sidestepping" of the > profile is an automatic response to a situation where the registry seciton of > the profile (NTUSER.DAT) cannot be opened. > > Do you use hibernation in either OS? If so this can lead to data corruption > if you modify files within a hibernated OS's partition. This is because when > the memory 'snapshot' is reloaded, the contents of those files will no longer > match what the running programs expect them to be. thanks for your reply. i do not use hibernation in either OS. i rarely use linux but a lot of files and applications went missing from my linux OS about 4 months ago but i didnt think too much of it. can I use system restore and set the problem right ? what else should i do
Guest Ian Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 Re: XP created new profile and loads from it I doubt if this is a system-restore candidate. You could try though. If it doesn't work then undo the restore. Otherwise, what you need to do is: Log on as Administrator (or an account other than your normal one) Rename both the original and substitue profile folders to something else. Remove and re-create your normal useraccount. Log on as your original user. This should re-create the correct userprofile folder. Log back on as Admin, and transfer the contents of your profile to the newly-created folder. Note that depending on the level of damage you may or may not be able to use the original NTUSER.DAT file. Things will be much easier if you can, as you then won't have to re-create all of your settings. But at least you should be able to put your files and shortcuts back. While doing this, disable the Fast User Switching service, as it can lead to accounts not being fully logged-off.
Guest brain_wired Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 Re: XP created new profile and loads from it On Jul 24, 2:24 pm, Ian <I...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I doubt if this is a system-restore candidate. You could try though. If it > doesn't work then undo the restore. > > Otherwise, what you need to do is: > > Log on as Administrator (or an account other than your normal one) > Rename both the original and substitue profile folders to something else. > Remove and re-create your normal useraccount. > Log on as your original user. This should re-create the correct userprofile > folder. > Log back on as Admin, and transfer the contents of your profile to the > newly-created folder. > > Note that depending on the level of damage you may or may not be able to use > the original NTUSER.DAT file. Things will be much easier if you can, as you > then won't have to re-create all of your settings. But at least you should > be able to put your files and shortcuts back. > > While doing this, disable the Fast User Switching service, as it can lead to > accounts not being fully logged-off. i coudnt use sys restore as it kept hanging before the operation. i created a new admin account and tried to rename both the original and the substitute accounts but access was denied. so i copied all my files from the original account to an external hard drive and then tried to delete the account. i chose the keep files option so that i could save some time in copying files back from the external hard drive. what it did was save files from the substitute account on the new admin desktop. well i thought my original files were deleted but the unused space still showed 1 GB as earlier. the earlier account still shows up as a empty folder but i cannot even access it. im wondering if somehow my original files are still in the hard drive and i have no way of accessing them. Im even more perplexed now. what do i do ?
Guest RalfG Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 Re: XP created new profile and loads from it Try the procedures for taking ownership of files/folders outlined here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421 "brain_wired" <triptoechoes@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1185285545.609191.83630@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > On Jul 24, 2:24 pm, Ian <I...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >> I doubt if this is a system-restore candidate. You could try though. If >> it >> doesn't work then undo the restore. >> >> Otherwise, what you need to do is: >> >> Log on as Administrator (or an account other than your normal one) >> Rename both the original and substitue profile folders to something else. >> Remove and re-create your normal useraccount. >> Log on as your original user. This should re-create the correct >> userprofile >> folder. >> Log back on as Admin, and transfer the contents of your profile to the >> newly-created folder. >> >> Note that depending on the level of damage you may or may not be able to >> use >> the original NTUSER.DAT file. Things will be much easier if you can, as >> you >> then won't have to re-create all of your settings. But at least you >> should >> be able to put your files and shortcuts back. >> >> While doing this, disable the Fast User Switching service, as it can lead >> to >> accounts not being fully logged-off. > > > i coudnt use sys restore as it kept hanging before the operation. i > created a new admin account and tried to rename both the original and > the substitute accounts but access was denied. so i copied all my > files from the original account to an external hard drive and then > tried to delete the account. i chose the keep files option so that i > could save some time in copying files back from the external hard > drive. what it did was save files from the substitute account on the > new admin desktop. well i thought my original files were deleted but > the unused space still showed 1 GB as earlier. the earlier account > still shows up as a empty folder but i cannot even access it. im > wondering if somehow my original files are still in the hard drive and > i have no way of accessing them. Im even more perplexed now. what do i > do ? >
Guest brain_wired Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 Re: XP created new profile and loads from it Thanks Ralf it worked. I went to safe mode and changed permissions and deleted the old account, the files were all there as i suspected. it was showing a gibberish ownership. dunno what went wrong where but im glad the pc is back to normal :)
Guest RalfG Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 Re: XP created new profile and loads from it Glad it worked out. "brain_wired" <triptoechoes@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1185295726.612399.17120@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > Thanks Ralf it worked. I went to safe mode and changed permissions and > deleted the old account, the files were all there as i suspected. it > was showing a gibberish ownership. dunno what went wrong where but im > glad the pc is back to normal :) >
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