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John O'Boyle

I'm new at WinXP and need some advice. I'm running Win XP Home. I've
shut off "System Restore" in favor of "Goback". Something I did in the
last few hours caused the message below to appear. My problem is NOT
the recovery. That seemed to go alright. The problem is that the
message itself won't go away! It shows up each and every time I
re-start (or re-boot) the system. I went back in time, using "Goback",
but apparently didn't revert far enough. Can anyone tell me how to
eliminate this message?

Thanks.

JLOB


"One of the files containing the System's registry Data had to be
recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was successful."
 
Check the following from MVP Kelly Theriot:

Suggestions:

Right click My Computer, Properties, Hardware, Device Manager. Locate the
entries for your hard disks and double click each entry. On the Policies
tab, uncheck Enable write caching.

You will see a performance decrease because of this, but if the corrupt
registry/user profiles problems cease, then you'll be certain of the cause.

Logon to another account with admin privilege and run System Restore.
Choose the most recent restore point and SR should restore the user hives.

Or...

Boot into safe mode and log in as Administrator. Copy ntuser.dat from
%windir%\repair to "Documents and Settings\[your user id]". Now do a system
restore to a point in time prior to when the corruption message began to
appear.

Or...

Relocate NTUserdat

Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and find the profile you want to change and
then change ProfileImagePath to the ntuser.dat folder that you want to use.
You must manually copy or move the ntuser.dat file there.

Corrupt Hive
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545

Recovery Console Fix for XP SP1 (Line 58)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
 
Michael,

Thanks for your suggestions. I am really new at this XP. I had turned
off system restore, and hence cannot go back. The only suggestion of
yours that I might be able to implement is relocating the NTuser.dat
folder. But I am unclear as to how all to do that and/or what that may
accomplish. Would you be so kind as to explain further?

Thank-you.

JLOB
 
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