- Oct 18, 1999
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Sorry for posting here, but no one reads (or hardly reads) The OS forum so I am reposting here. Its semi HW as it was a full HD that caused this. 
Hi all. I have an issue with a friends PC. His HD was maxxed out, always saying the drive was full, blah blah blah. So I install another HD, set it up as D:, change the drive letters to the cdrom and burner. Created a swap on d: and kept a small swap file on c:. Rebooted, he logs in with his profile all is ok. I move his Itunes music to the new D: and clear up 20 gigs off of the c: so all should be cool right? NOT! Now when he logs in it gives the standard profile corrupt error and that it is using a temp profile. So I'm like, crap! So I boot into safe mode, log in as administrator, create a completely new/different profile with administrator right. Reboot to new profile, look in documents and settings and his old folder is renamed with other letters. I do a search for all of his docs and info from the corrupt profile folders and nothing is there. This PC was upgraded about a year ago from Win98 to Winxp Pro. I search the whole HD for his stuff and nada, zilch. I do find about 2 gigs of FILE001 et al....on the HD, so I told him to create a folder on the secondary drive I had installed and dont log in under the corrupt profile any more. Now, I have done this many time, create a new profile with admin right, log in as that and can usually copy the data from the corrupt profile but this time I cant. I'm pretty sure the 2 gigs of FILE000X files are probably his stuff. How can I repair his profile on a Winxp Pro OS that was upgraded from Win98? He has years of stuff he desperatly needs! I kept telling him to clear out your C: cuz a full drive will do this. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.
Hi all. I have an issue with a friends PC. His HD was maxxed out, always saying the drive was full, blah blah blah. So I install another HD, set it up as D:, change the drive letters to the cdrom and burner. Created a swap on d: and kept a small swap file on c:. Rebooted, he logs in with his profile all is ok. I move his Itunes music to the new D: and clear up 20 gigs off of the c: so all should be cool right? NOT! Now when he logs in it gives the standard profile corrupt error and that it is using a temp profile. So I'm like, crap! So I boot into safe mode, log in as administrator, create a completely new/different profile with administrator right. Reboot to new profile, look in documents and settings and his old folder is renamed with other letters. I do a search for all of his docs and info from the corrupt profile folders and nothing is there. This PC was upgraded about a year ago from Win98 to Winxp Pro. I search the whole HD for his stuff and nada, zilch. I do find about 2 gigs of FILE001 et al....on the HD, so I told him to create a folder on the secondary drive I had installed and dont log in under the corrupt profile any more. Now, I have done this many time, create a new profile with admin right, log in as that and can usually copy the data from the corrupt profile but this time I cant. I'm pretty sure the 2 gigs of FILE000X files are probably his stuff. How can I repair his profile on a Winxp Pro OS that was upgraded from Win98? He has years of stuff he desperatly needs! I kept telling him to clear out your C: cuz a full drive will do this. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.
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