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bannie · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Boston

First things first: I downloaded the Condemned:Criminal Origins demo for my laptop. I went to fire it up and it froze. So I shut off the computer. I went to log into my account and a message of how the profile was possibly corrupted showed up. It took me to a makeshift profile where I was able to set a new perminant one up

My question is: can I fix this, or are all my pictures, documents, saved webpages gone and I should just cut loose and start over?

please say its the first one...

Brf · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject:

As long as you are a local admin, you should be able to access your old profile. If you right-click on your Start-button and choose "Explore" it will be browsing your new profile. Your old profile should be a couple of directories up.

s_stabeler · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2296

actaually, depending, it might be irretrievable. try BRF's solution, if that doesn't work, then you're pretty much stuffed.

bannie · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Boston

It not there. I can find the old document fold, but there is nothing in it

also, there is a folder named "Owner", but I curiously cant access it

Brf · Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject:

If you are logged in as a local admin, you should be able to right-click on a file or folder that you cannot access, and take ownership of it.

Choose the "security" tab and click the "Advanced" button.

Then choose the "owner" tab and change the owner to you.

You should then be able to access the folder.

bannie · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Boston

I actually got most of the files I wanted to off the old profile (using a pen drive and just switching between the two), but is there a way to save it or is it FUBAR?

also, the dead profile is the "owner" of the laptop. Will I run into any undesireable effects if I do in fact decide to nuke it?

Brf · Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject:

Usually, when a profile is screwed up, it is the user.dat user registry that is corrupt. If you can rescue your personal files from the old profile directories, you should be better off using the new clean profile than trying to fix the old one.

s_stabeler · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2296

yep, Brf is corerect. the old profile is best nuked, bombed to bits, and utterly destroyed.

bannie · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Boston

Thats what I assumed, but Im a little hesitant to nuke a file called "owner"

s_stabeler · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2296

all it is is the profile, that's all it will delete, nothing else. you HAVE rescued all the files you can, haven't you?

s_stabeler · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2296

and now I ahve a related problem. namely i had a crash, 9 or so it seems) and now just about everything has gone kaput on my computer. i'm onyl able to post this as I was able to rescue firefox with a re-install. all my programs and comptuer games are gone, the fiels have gone, I assume due to a corrupted disk. and advice, anyone? short of getting a new drive, please. (and i think i'll install my computer games on a different disk from my windows disk next time.)

NibbyCat · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 3203 Location: Eastern Ohio

Back up, back up, back up. I have an external hard drive for my stuff, and every week I back up my preferences for Firefox, Thunderbird, Trillian, and other programs.

Once it's gone, though, I have no suggestions for recovery, it's all hindsight.

s_stabeler · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2296

thankfully, most of the stuff, I either have the original installation disk for, or have the download for, the remainder of the stuff came with the PC, or isn't anythign I really care about. and firefox's preferences survived, just not the .exe file. sometimes, not having a derfagmented volume can be useful :shock: