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WINDOWS XP (Non-Destructive Restore)

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by pc_tek

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User has Windows XP (Home Edition). Modem would not work so user tried to trouble shoot by theirself, ran the Non-Destructive restore option (F10) from boot up menu. Now the user profile is missing, and the administrator account is not valid (cannot log on as administrator). Further (HD has run out of space (60 gig hard drive is completely full). Cannot remove programs becuase cannot log on as administrator and user profile which had administrator rights is missing. Any ideas on (1) Restoring user profile, (2) Restoring Administrator account?

Thanks in Advance.

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by tommys

Well Try to first boot into dos, if you can't pull the hard drive and make it a slave in another system. What you want to do is rename the C:\Documents and Settings folder. Rename it to anything you want. Then start the system. Xp will notice no users are in the machine so it will create a default Admin account. Type any password because you will have to change it anyway. This will give you a virgin account with nothing but you can get into the machine with Admin rights so you can execute programs, you will just have to go to the execuatable. You will have to recreate a user profile but you can clear space and use old shortcuts.

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