Solved profile failure after advanced install

[cosmo4u]

I installed Win7 pro 64x with advanced options and did a sysprep to put the users on another drive so that my SSD would just have the OS. Everything went perfect for a few days then I got this error
"user profile service service failed the logon"
now any user will not load. I did research and found that I could edit the registry to fix the problem.. Great!! I boot into safe mode but nothing works. no regedit, no Dos prompt, etc.
I only get this error
C:\\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable.

I understand it cant find it cause I have the users on another drive. My question is how do I fix my original problem of
"user profile service service failed the logon"

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Brink]

Hello Cosmo, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if you may be able to do a system restore at boot using a restore point (if available) dated before this started to hopefully fix it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[cosmo4u]

thanks!! worked like a charm. So far so good.

Just cause...what do you think caused it? My installing the profiles on another drive? Just wondering how to avoid this in the future

thanks again

 

[Brink]

That's great news.

I would say that it was probably something that went wrong when installing the profiles to a different drive. Personally, I find it best to leave the profiles on the default C, and just use libraries if you wanted files to be stored at a different location instead.