POOF! User Profile damaged or missing? (screenshots inside)

[SteadySystems]

Cecile, a standard WinXP user logs in today and sees a whole new desktop. Poof! Her profile is not being used but it says she is logged in as Cecile20.

So I take a screen shot of the profiles and see her profile has been backed up and she is using a temp profile in the meantime.

What has happened?
How do I get her profile back?

Secondarily to the root issue I want to avoid setting up everything again.

 

[IllogicallyLogical]

The user's profile has become corrupt. There are a couple of ways to recover from this. Here are a few....

- How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151

- How to recover the damaged user profile in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555473

- Windows XP Problems if Your Profile Is Damaged

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326688

Joey
CCNA, MCP, A+, Network+, Wireless#

 

[SteadySystems]

I followed the proper steps to recover a damaged profile but during the copying process the following error is returned:

"Failed to set Security on the Destination profile. Error - Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

what now?

 

[IllogicallyLogical]

Follow the steps in the first link to manually copy data from the corrupted user profile to the new one. Remember to NOT copy the specified "Ntuser" files.

Joey
CCNA, MCP, A+, Network+, Wireless#

 

[linney]

How To Restore a User Profile in Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q324734/#appliesto