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From: GrandpaFerret on 17 Feb 2010 22:09
Thanks Jim. Saved me a bit of research. Appreciate it.

reprofiler did not turn up anything interesting at first blush... just that
the old admin profile exists and is not associated with a user.

One thing I noticed after I made the orignal post in this thread....

I dont know how to explain this.... its an area of XP i have never
understood. To put it in UNIX terms, in XP there is what seem to be a "hard
link" aka ln(1) to each users "my document" directory in the profile from "my
computer". Now, "my computer" has always struck me as a strange beast....

Anyway, after I did the restore (which broke the link to the old Admin
profile and setup a new profile Administrator.<hostname>).... this "hard
link" disappeared... at the My Computer "folder" I have Shared Documents,
user1's Documents, user2's Documents, etc... but no Administrator's Documents
(or Administrator.<hostname>'s Documents)

Could someone expound on this sub-topic for me?

Still hoping (previously ask) for info on how to tell what it was XP did not
like ab out the original administrator profile.

Thanks
From: GrandpaFerret on 18 Feb 2010 01:02
I went to take a look at the old Administrator's profile using regedit... and
guess what. ntuser.dat is missing! There is a ntuser.dat.LOG, but the user
profile itself is missing.

How in the heck did system restore screw things up that badly?

That profile was there and healthy (more or less) at the time I made the
restore point.

Looks like a bug in XP to me.
From: Anteaus on 18 Feb 2010 18:24
Almost certainly there has been disk corruption, and probably chkdsk has
deleted the file in a startup scan.

You may be able to recover a copy of it from the system-restore data as
follows:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

This page refers to restoring the system registry, but the user registry is
backed-up too. You need to find the SID of the administrator user, and locate
the appropriate REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER file inside the "System Volume
Information" folder.

You don't need to use the recovery console for this, but you need to give
the Administrators group read permissions to the System Volume Information
folder.

Reprofiler lists the account SIDs, scroll the user-window rightward to see
them. The Administrator SID is usually 1-5-21-something-500

There may be several restore points, you need to decide which to use, Once
you've identified the right REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER file in the restore-point's
snapshot folder, copy it into the profile and rename it NTUSER.DAT

"GrandpaFerret" wrote:

> I went to take a look at the old Administrator's profile using regedit... and
> guess what. ntuser.dat is missing! There is a ntuser.dat.LOG, but the user
> profile itself is missing.
>
> How in the heck did system restore screw things up that badly?
>
> That profile was there and healthy (more or less) at the time I made the
> restore point.
>
> Looks like a bug in XP to me.
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