Restore Old User Profile and Data

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Restore Old User Profile and Data

Windows Vista11
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.

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Mark

Registered User

Thu Mar 06 18:18:46 PST 2008

Re:Restore Old User Profile and Data

Q318011 - Error Message Windows Cannot Load Your Profile Because It May Be

Corrupted: support.microsoft.com/default.aspx >support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:

support.microsoft.com/default.aspx >support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

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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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.