User account corrupted?

[gregrocker]

I operate under hidden Admin. On my laptop I suddenly noticed I could not access Event Viewer. According to MS problem is often attributable to corrupted User account which occurs during Forced shutdown.

I created another account and the problem didn't replicate. However since i don't want my hidden Admin crippled I ran a Repair Install which did not fix the issue.

I am now operating under new User Account with no further problems or performance issues, have hidden the hidden Admin account, but would still like to solve the issue.

Can anyone suggest a more direct fix than Repair Install for possible corrupt User account where Event Viewer fails to load?

 

[gregrocker]

Getting good performance out of my new Greg User Account but still don't like the idea of the hidden Admin account being corrupted in such a way.

Researching it on the web has MS saying that corruption of Event Viewer on only one User Account results from corrupting User Account from forced shutdown affecting Registry.

If a Repair Install cannot fix this, then are there any other suggestions?

Is reimaging obsessive since i have good performance on my new User Account? I tend to be bugged by less than perfection with Win7.

 

[Golden]

Greg,

Found this similar issue: Corrupt User Account - Vista Forums

Its not a hidden Admin account, but Brink suggested trying an sfc /scannow (which I'm sure you have probably already tried) but it appeard not to work. Looks like new account is the way to go....but sounds like you are angling to a clean install for the hidden Admin issue?

Hope someone has a better suggestion.

Regards,
Golden

 

[gregrocker]

Thanks for following up, Golden. Here's what happened:

Converted my WindowsImageBackup to Acronis .tib in TrueImage, so I could reimage it to a second partition. After using EasyBCD to add it from old Win7 partition it started right up and I was back to Jan 21st as hidden Admin, with great performance.

Seeing this was going to work (100% track record on Win7 backup imaging to date here) I deleted crippled 7 partition and resized new C into its space, which Partition Wizard boot CD always does flawlessly with file system check before and after.

The only hiccup still just a flicker of a Dual Boot screen at bootup I would like to edit out if someone can tell me the command. It's gone from msconfig>boot and turned off in Startup Options.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Greg, have a look at this, to see if the old entry is listed.

Use the BCDEDIT Command Line Tool
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[gregrocker]

Hi Ted -

Not sure what I would edit from listings below:


Is there a command to set displaybootmenu to No?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I see several differences between yours and mine, mainly the "disolaybootmenu" mine doesn't have and I haven't had to sort this before so I don't have an answer for you right now.

I bet if we can sort this it will go a long way to sorting some of the 'ghost' boot listings we see from time to time.

Do you have a SysResv partition, I do.

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[gregrocker]

Yes, SysReserved is System Active with WinRe on F8.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Export a backup first, just in case.

Try ...

bcdedit /displaybootmenu {bootmgr} no

or some variation of this, maybe change the command order around


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I'm off for the night here in a few, I get up at 4:30A

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I worked on this some but haven't sorted it yet; will keep trying later.



Since this is possible, there has to be a way.

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[gregrocker]

I went to confirm that the Repair console was still on F8 tools after deleting the dual boot and it wasn't. It's linked WinRE file was on the deleted OS.

I want F8 Repair console on this laptop so i deleted SysReserved, created Primary Active partition there, then ran Startup Repair x3 which failed to rebuild SysActive with "Cannot repair Win7."

Next I converted the SysReserved 7 backup image to .tib using Acronis so I could do a partition-specfic reimage of 100mb. This failed - both with and without restoring Disk signature - after trying to repair both x3.

Since I now had both partiitons' Win7 image converted to Acronis, I used Acronis boot disk to try to reimage the entire HD, which failed because it wouldn't merge the two converted .tib images correctly back together, and wouldn't work reimaging them separately. This annoys me when a paid program can't handle its own fancy features.

In the end, I fell back to original Win7 Backup image to reimage the entire HD perfectly in 20 minutes. This is about the tenth time Acronis operations have failed, whereas Win7 backup imaging has never failed me.