Question by roar: XP local profile corrupted…? My laptop seems to be loading from the recovery drive (drive D) rather than the local disk (Drive C). i have looked in the registry to change the boot sequence but it just says I”internal HDD’ It cant load my user account properly and it shows a message saying it ant locate the local profile and that it may be corrupted. How can i fix this? Best answer: Answer by Markmaybe you have a virus? if not, then i have no idea Give your answer to this question below!

Question by TimMack007: Profile Issues – Windows XP? I tried to log into my computer the other day and this message popped up along with a 30 second count down: “Windows cannot load the user’s profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system” then the details said “The system has attempted to load or restore a file in the registry but the specified file is not in a registry file format”. I don’t really care about all my settings because I’m just about to get a new computer anyway, but how can I access my [...]

Question by mnvikes: Is there a way to copy XP user profiles? One got screwed up by a virus? I had a worm or virus a few weeks ago which norton says made 800+ registry changes. System restore is messed up, and my main user profile is messed up but other user profiles work fine except when you log in it pops up a message saying windows cant find the user enviornment file. im wondering if i can copy a file that loads on startup or something and replace it with the old ones to fix my main profile Best [...]