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Resetting User Folders
Big problem. I was using my computer yesterday as normal (since it is a laptop, I often put it to sleep to carry it around or if I am going to be away for a short while). When I woke it up from sleep, I was hearing a strange noise. I found out fairly quickly that the second hard drive, a Seagate Momentus 5400rpm 250GB, had failed. The main hard disk, an OCZ Agility 2 SSD 60GB that contains the operating system and a limited number of other programs, was undamaged.
However, this has still left me with a problem. The computer was set to have all of the user files on the second hard drive, the same one that failed. Now, every time I start up the computer, it sets up a temporary profile. I added a second hard drive (a spare WD Scorpio 160GB), which has the appropriate setup for the user folder, and tried setting the computer to use the user files there instead of setting up a temporary set. I even went into the registry and changed the entries to make it look at those files instead of the TEMP folder that it had set up.
This did not work. I restarted, and it still set up a temporary user profile. Go figure.
Thus, if anyone has a manner to quickly and/or easily reset the user files--even just to set them back up as they normally would be on the C:\ drive so I can reset the location to the second drive manually--I would much appreciate the help.
Not sure that it would make any difference, but specs:
OS: Windows 7 Professional x64
Model: Gateway P-7805u gaming laptop
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 @2.26GHz
RAM: OCZ 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Graphics: NVidia GeForce 9800M GTS
Hard Drives:
- OCZ Agility 2 Solid-state 60GB (C:\; contains OS and a few other programs)
- Western Digital Scorpio 5400rpm 160GB (E:\; desired location of user files)