Restoring Corrupt Administrator.bak file

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Have been a long time Win2K user. Today, while booting
my PC, I got the following message...
Windows cannot load profile, It may be corrupt, contact
your administrator.
Then...
Something to the effect of - your administrator profile
was corrupt. A new profile has been created for you.

It appears that the corrupt profile was saved to a
directory in Documents and Settings/administrator.bak
(seems like everything of mine is there).

Question: I've followed KB256986 and created a new, valid
administrator account, but HOW DO I RESTORE THE OLD
SETTINGS FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR.BAK profile???
 
Have been a long time Win2K user. Today, while booting
my PC, I got the following message...
Windows cannot load profile, It may be corrupt, contact
your administrator.
Then...
Something to the effect of - your administrator profile
was corrupt. A new profile has been created for you.

It appears that the corrupt profile was saved to a
directory in Documents and Settings/administrator.bak
(seems like everything of mine is there).

Question: I've followed KB256986 and created a new, valid
administrator account, but HOW DO I RESTORE THE OLD
SETTINGS FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR.BAK profile???
Click to expand...

Go to System Properties and use the User Profile option to Copy To...
Select the old profile and tell it you want to copy to the new profile.

--Chris
 
Have been a long time Win2K user. Today, while booting
my PC, I got the following message...
Windows cannot load profile, It may be corrupt, contact
your administrator.
Then...
Something to the effect of - your administrator profile
was corrupt. A new profile has been created for you.

It appears that the corrupt profile was saved to a
directory in Documents and Settings/administrator.bak
(seems like everything of mine is there).

Question: I've followed KB256986 and created a new, valid
administrator account, but HOW DO I RESTORE THE OLD
SETTINGS FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR.BAK profile???
Click to expand...

Go to System Properties and use the User Profile option to Copy To...
Select the old profile and tell it you want to copy to the new profile.

--Chris
 
I have the same problem as the original poster, and Chris' suggestion can't work anyway, because the "old" profile doesn't appear in the choice of profiles in System Properties.

Any other suggestion? How did the original poster solve his problem, anyone knows?
 
This could have happened for other reasons and mistakenly triggered the corrupt profile backup mechanism.

You could try this

Log in as another user with admin rights, or create a new user called anything and give admin rights.

goto Docs&Settings, rename newly created user folder to

eg
Administrator >>> Administrator-new or Bob >>> Bob-new

Administrator.bak >>> Administator or Bob.bak >>> Bob

Logout and log backin as required user

If it doesnt work, you need to reverse from another admin user then manually copy docs,fav, email etc

Thanks
Scott
 
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