Restoring users after complete system restore

[Guest FrankF]

I had to completely restore my 2004 HP Pavillion a387x desktop which is

running XP Home. I used the restore CD, loaded SP2 when that was completed

and reloaded my virus software. In the process of the restore, I did not

reformat the hard drive so I could keep all of my data files... and users.

When it was time to configure the desktop after the restore, I re-entered

each user name exactly as they were previously. When they logged on the

first time the machine hung-up and had to be hard booted. When I looked at

the file structure, the old users remained in their entirity, and the new

users that had attempted to log on, created new folders (now with an

extention on their name) and profiles? Is there any way of pointing the

users profile back to the old profile & sub-folders? Help....!!!

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Restoring users after complete system restore

 

 

"FrankF" <FrankF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:CFB3FE8A-E711-4676-8705-D50CB20ED463@microsoft.com...

>I had to completely restore my 2004 HP Pavillion a387x desktop which is

> running XP Home. I used the restore CD, loaded SP2 when that was

> completed

> and reloaded my virus software. In the process of the restore, I did not

> reformat the hard drive so I could keep all of my data files... and users.

> When it was time to configure the desktop after the restore, I re-entered

> each user name exactly as they were previously. When they logged on the

> first time the machine hung-up and had to be hard booted. When I looked

> at

> the file structure, the old users remained in their entirity, and the new

> users that had attempted to log on, created new folders (now with an

> extention on their name) and profiles? Is there any way of pointing the

> users profile back to the old profile & sub-folders? Help....!!!

 

The location of your user profile folders is kept there:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

After making a change, you may have to set appropriate permissions.