The user profile service failed the logon....

Afraid not an image backup but rescue media.

Just created another Admin user and see in Control Panel - Users but do not see an entry in registry yet. perhaps a restart is needed.

Cannot delete User01 profile till I can get a new profile working properly.

Brink said:

The new account's profile should be created the first time to you log in to it.

Issue seems to be a bit more severe.

I created Admin user - User02. Didn't see anything in registry - ProfileList. So logged off and tried to logon as user02. Got "User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded" error.

Restarted machine and tried to log on as User02, still same error.

Logged in as User01, deleted User02 account and reboot
Went in safe mode User01, created user02, logged off, tried to log in Safe mode as User02, Success.
Reboot to Normal mode and am able to log in.

However, as soon as I click on D:\Users (partitioned user data to D:\) I get Access Denied Error. Opened folder properties and added User02, got some "access is denied" errors that tell me that user profiles are still messed up badly.

Thanks

What did you do to move C:\Users to D:\Users?

Megahertz07 said:

What did you do to move C:\Users to D:\Users?

that was done while doing the initial win-7 install (Kari tutorial) a few years back

I also did using Kari tutorial.
Lets begin with the basic
- Boot from the Win 7 installation disk, go to repair and launch a CMD window. Type:
chkdsk c: /f
See if it finds any bad clusters or bad blocks.

- Type:
sfc /scannow

Blink, I've seen cases that sysprep didn't change the default user folder.

Scan the register (F3) and look for C:/Users. Should be any.

Go to this address on Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Brink said:

Is the new account on "C" or "D"?

The new account (that I was able to create in Safe Mode) had been created on D:\ as it should be since I have D:\Users folder set up.

Megahertz07 said:

Blink, I've seen cases that sysprep didn't change the default user folder.

Scan the register (F3) and look for C:/Users. Should be any.

Go to this address on Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

To clarify, I've not had any issues before this. My Users Folder was on D:\ and everything had been running fine till I had to take out the HDD and used it on another machine (attaching in an external HDD closure).

So sysprep had worked fine, no issues etc. on that account