My PC has died...

[Buzzin]

I just turned my PC on and i have no files whatsoever, my documents is empty and all of the programs i installed have gone. Its basically just factory stand now. Anyone have an idea how that could happen? :(

[wats_up]

yeah did some cock insert the recovy disk into the floppy drive


have nay siblings..or retarded parents or children or wahatever...ask them

[Jacx]

smokie its non of thoses as it would not even come up with the default stuff ... not in this case...its factory default so wats up must be close to hitting it on the nail...if its like that u would have had to go throught the process of registring shit and such...so someones been at the pc with a recovery disk... that or someones winding u up and nicked ur hard drive !

[Flashman]

when that happened to me, it was because I had logged in under a different user's account.

[Dymond]

BINGO!!!

I think exactly what flashman said! If its logged in as somebody else all your stuff will be gone..I believe that over an 'accidental' recovery.

[Jacx]

actually smokes...ive dont that too..logged in as different account

[Psychostyle]

is it a dell computer? control f11 at blue screen will revert a dell to factory spec..no prompts, no nuthin, just BANG, your done.

[Dymond]

Yeah in XP Home its pretty easy to do...

[Buzzin]

Cheers for the replies guys, when i turn the pc on now it says this

Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.


I would just put the recovery disk in but ive lost it :-#

[Buzzin]

Ok, we can all stop worrying now, anti-duck came to the rescue and told me how to fix it :D

[Dymond]

I don't like AD getting cutting in on my turf..Smokie take care of him for me would ya... Concrete boots if ya know what I mean...

Seriously though would like to know what you did to fix it? Did you just nuke the profile and start over or was there some other solution?

[Gringo]

Did you just nuke the profile and start over or was there some other solution?

Can we have that in plain English Language again Dymond :P

[anti-duck]

I don't like AD getting cutting in on my turf..Smokie take care of him for me would ya... Concrete boots if ya know what I mean...

Seriously though would like to know what you did to fix it? Did you just nuke the profile and start over or was there some other solution?

Just did a system restore to a couple days ago to get back to a non-corrupt profile.

[Dymond]

Just did a system restore to a couple days ago to get back to a non-corrupt profile.

Thanx AD! However I would recommend that Buzzin run some system diagnostics..especially on the hard drive...


Can we have that in plain English Language again Dymond :P


Sorry Gringo..from the control panel you have the ability to delete a profile if your logged in as the administrator. It doesn't happen as often with local profiles but with Domain profiles they can become corrupt to the point where things don't install or work correctly. Usually an IT guy will just completely remove a profile and have the user log back in which will rebuild it from scratch.