Unable to get a profile to copy properly

[lockac]

I have a normal user account I wish to copy.

I thought it's time to clean up my pc by putting on a new build using my ghosted copy of my system. Once the ghost system was back down on the pc.

I have copied the profile over the top of two profiles one being an administrator account on the local pc the other being a network account set-up on my windows 2003 enterprise server. The first of the two accounts worked fine when I logged in as the user.
The other logs in ok but is corrupted. Certain links will not work the backdrop is not display. And the task bar is white in appearance and using different font to the norm.

I have trolled through the windows forums and help with no luck. I will try and run through what I have already tried.

(The pc is running XP pro and logging into 2003 Active directory network)

1) Copying the profile form the original account.

2) Copying the profile from the administrator account.

3) Copying all the files from the profile directory. Expect the three in the route of the profile.

4) Deleting the account from the domain and re-creating it and then copying the profile.

5) Copy the profile to default profile and then logging into the pc for the first time.


Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[wolluf]

What are you using to copy the profile? You should be using the copyto feature (advanced tab of system properties, user profiles button). Any other method may cause problems.

btw - ' Copy the profile to default profile and then logging into the pc for the first time' - does this mean you overwrote 'Default User' profile? (hope you saved original).

 

[lockac]

Yep I did make a copy of the defult profile (not that stupied). And yes I am using the copy to profile. In all attempts but the number 3 this I got from the microsoft web site.

Money is not eveything its what you do with that counts!

 

[wolluf]

For the network account, did you log on locally (so profile would be created), before you copied the profile you wanted over it?

You could of course start with a new profile, and copy bits out of original to it, customising the rest as you want manually.