Re: How do I Copy or edit profiles on a second hard drive

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As far as ideas go, I've already given you a few suggestions.

Put the hard drive back in PC "A" and boot into Safe Mode to see if you can log
on with one of your 5 accounts.

If that doesn't work, see if you can boot into the built in Administrator
account if Safe Mode. Every XP installation has an account named Administrator
which, by default, is hidden. How you access this account depends on what
version of XP is installed on your computer. If you're using XP Pro, hit the
Ctrl + Alt + Del keys at the Welcome Screen. This should launch the Logon to
Windows dialog where you can enter Administrator in the User Name box. If you're
running XP Home Edition, the Administrator account will be listed on the Welcome
screen in Safe Mode.

If you can log on with an admin account, you should be able to create new user
accounts and copy the corrupt profiles into them using the procedure outlined in
this article.

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/811151

It also would be helpful to know the exact contents of any error messages. And,
as I asked earlier, what did you mean by "I also get error 0x80040507".

Nepatsfan

"Rigo" <Rigo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No, I didn't think of using Safe mode. I don't have a separate admin.
profile, two of the 5 profiles have admin. rights.

I don't recall what else the error said, but it was something to the effect
of the profile being damaged. I find it hard that all 5 profiles are
damaged, but I don't know much about profiles.

As of today, I did a full back up of PC "A" hard drive, and I'm trying to
restore it with Trueimage. I have a feeling that once I restore it, I'm
going to have the same problem.

Not sure where to go from there... Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

"Nepatsfan" wrote:

"Rigo" <Rigo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On PC "A" I have 5 user profiles and I can't log into any of them. It says
that Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Causes could be a
corrupt local profile. I also get error 0x80040507.

I took out my hard drive from PC "A", and installed it on PC "B". Once in
log into PC "B" I can access the files on hard drive "A", but I want to
edit
or delete the profiles so I can put it back on PC "A" and be able to log
in.

I tried Control Panel/Users, but I can only access user profiles for PC
"B".

Does anyone know how to do that?


Before you pulled the hard drive out of PC "A", did you try booting into Safe
Mode to see if you could logon with any of the 5 user accounts? Did you try
to
log on with the built-in Administrator account?

What exactly do you mean by "I also get error 0x80040507". What else did it
say
on the screen when this error message was displayed?

Nepatsfan






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