Guest playingpossumSC Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 After installing a new Hard Drive and backup data following a crash, my start up page gives only the choice of a the Owner Account. My older user account with email settings, etc. can be used, but only after going to the account listed in Documents and Settings on my computer and then C Drive. How can I get my older user account moved to the new blue start page when booting up? Note: The computer shop used updated installation disks with SP2 when they installed the OS on the new disk drive.
Guest Nightowl Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Re: Retrieving/Using Previous User Account playingpossumSC <playingpossumSC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Sun, 9 Sep 2007: >After installing a new Hard Drive and backup data following a crash, my >start up page gives only the choice of a the Owner Account. My older user >account with email settings, etc. can be used, but only after going to the >account listed in Documents and Settings on my computer and then C Drive. > >How can I get my older user account moved to the new blue start page when >booting up? > >Note: The computer shop used updated installation disks with SP2 when they >installed the OS on the new disk drive. Hi playingpossum I think you must mean you can access your old data by going to the old account profile in Documents and Settings? Your old user account doesn't exist on the new hard drive because the computer shop didn't create it when they did the clean install of Windows, but your old profile folder is there from the backup. You need to create a new account and copy your old data and settings to it. This article is about recovering from a corrupted user profile, but the procedure is the same: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151 Do note the warning about Outlook Express data and your address book. You can associate those to the new profile with the method here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313055 Leave the old profile in place for a while until you're certain everything you need has been recovered and is working okay. Let us know how it goes :-) -- Nightowl
Guest playingpossumSC Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: Retrieving/Using Previous User Account Thanks Nightowl! I'm Not --a Nightowl that it - so I will use your recommendations later in the week. I feared that I would have to be a bit more involved in re-creating my old profile but was unsure of the exact steps. Will let you know how I fare. playingpossum > Hi playingpossum > > I think you must mean you can access your old data by going to the old > account profile in Documents and Settings? > > Your old user account doesn't exist on the new hard drive because the > computer shop didn't create it when they did the clean install of > Windows, but your old profile folder is there from the backup. You need > to create a new account and copy your old data and settings to it. This > article is about recovering from a corrupted user profile, but the > procedure is the same: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151 > > Do note the warning about Outlook Express data and your address book. > You can associate those to the new profile with the method here: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313055 > > Leave the old profile in place for a while until you're certain > everything you need has been recovered and is working okay. > > Let us know how it goes :-) > -- > Nightowl >
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