Help, I can't login, user profile can't be loaded

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  1. Posts : 299
    Win 7 Professional 32-bit
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    Help, I can't login, user profile can't be loaded


    Following : Move the Users Directory in Windows 7 I foolishly attempted to move my Users directory from the Win7 drive to another partition. This sounded great in theory.

    After rebooting, I cannot login to Windows. When I try to logon with my username and password, I get this error:
    "The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.
    Other than a complete reinstall, what else can I do to logon? Can I create a new account in Safe mode and use that or something like that? I tried a Windows restore, but that failed

    Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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  2. Posts : 9,582
    Windows 8.1 Pro RTM x64
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  3. Posts : 299
    Win 7 Professional 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks, I tried those steps out and no luck. My problem is that the entire Users folder is gone. On top of that, when I login with the built in Administrator account, I get this error (see screen) View image: profile error.png

    Do I have to reinstall Windows to fix this?
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  4. Posts : 17,322
    Win 10 Pro x64
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    You might want to try a Repair Install first, at least you wont lose anything that way.
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  5. Posts : 299
    Win 7 Professional 32-bit
    Thread Starter
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    derekimo said:
    You might want to try a Repair Install first, at least you wont lose anything that way.
    I ended up doing a full reinstall. Funny enough, I had just installed Win 7 yesterday. That makes 2 Win installs in 24 hrs ;-)
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  6. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
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    Once it is running the way you like, make a system image on an External Hard Drive. You will never have to activate or reinstall, again. Make the image after activation and your programs are installed. Good Luck.
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  7. Posts : 299
    Win 7 Professional 32-bit
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    richc46 said:
    Once it is running the way you like, make a system image on an External Hard Drive. You will never have to activate or reinstall, again. Make the image after activation and your programs are installed. Good Luck.
    That sounds like a fine idea. I have never made a system image before. Would you mind giving me some pointers, app, some steps to get the process going?
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  8. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
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    I would be very happy to. I am leaving to look for a tutorial, if there are none, I will tell you step by step what you should do.

    Success, there was an excellent tutorial available. Read it over. If you have any questions or problems, I would be very happy to help you. Take your time.

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  9. Posts : 2,685
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64
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    nabilalk said:
    richc46 said:
    Once it is running the way you like, make a system image on an External Hard Drive. You will never have to activate or reinstall, again. Make the image after activation and your programs are installed. Good Luck.
    That sounds like a fine idea. I have never made a system image before. Would you mind giving me some pointers, app, some steps to get the process going?
    Stick the image from Windows on an external HDD, and stash it somewhere safe.
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  10. Posts : 17,322
    Win 10 Pro x64
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    No disrespect rich, but I think this is the one you wanted, if not I apologize.
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