i didnt see a pc help thread, so here goes...

well this is by far the most wierdest thing i seen in xp pro. anywho, i was just going to swap my 4GB for my 20GB and clone it for my main drive (OS), so i shutdown and removed the case cover but i had fergotten to double check the jumper settings. i plugged it back in and booted up but it didnt boot into my account (booeyman) and it was gone. all my settings/desktop icons were gone too. it had booted in the admin accnt, but i had never setup xp pro to boot asking which account to log into. it always booted up with my desktop, not the log in screen. i went into the computer management and i do see a booeyman account but nuttin next to it.

i was in the computer management before i shutdown checking my c drive partition but i never changed or touched anything in there. what happened and how can i get my account back without having to create a new one?

see the images below to see the 'booeyman' account in the comp. mang. and explorer

http://s91111824.onlinehome.us/computer_management.jpg
http://s91111824.onlinehome.us/users.jpg

thnx
-b2t

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Originally posted by born2trance i didnt see a pc help thread, so here goes... well this is by far the most wierdest thing i seen in xp pro. anywho, i was just going to swap my 4GB for my 20GB and clone it for my main drive (OS), so i shutdown and removed the case cover but i had fergotten to double check the jumper settings. i plugged it back in and booted up but it didnt boot into my account (booeyman) and it was gone. all my settings/desktop icons were gone too. it had booted in the admin accnt, but i had never setup xp pro to boot asking which account to log into. it always booted up with my desktop, not the log in screen. i went into the computer management and i do see a booeyman account but nuttin next to it. i was in the computer management before i shutdown checking my c drive partition but i never changed or touched anything in there. what happened and how can i get my account back without having to create a new one? see the images below to see the 'booeyman' account in the comp. mang. and explorer http://s91111824.onlinehome.us/computer_management.jpg http://s91111824.onlinehome.us/users.jpg thnx -b2t

you said most wierdest

ok so you cloned your 4gb with your 20gb??? you nuts?

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Originally posted by -=M=- ok so you cloned your 4gb with your 20gb??? you nuts?

yes,i was going to copy my 4GB to my 20GB but now i cant til i get this xp thing fixed. i might just hafta do a clean install on the 20GB. ugh...

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There is a place for this:

Frequently Asked Questions / Tutorials / How do I?
"This is where you can ask your specific questions regarding the site, software, computer problems, etc."

(I know its hard to see, all the way at the top of the COR and all...)

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http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...8&Product=winxp

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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie There is a place for this: Frequently Asked Questions / Tutorials / How do I? "This is where you can ask your specific questions regarding the site, software, computer problems, etc." (I know its hard to see, all the way at the top of the COR and all...)

ahh, i see. but shouldnt it be its own thread on the main forum page? itd be a lot more easy to see (i woulda never looked in the chill room)

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Originally posted by Orbital32 http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...8&Product=winxp

this isnt gonna work since that page referes to system restoring, which didnt work in the first place.

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read it again

you forgot to change the jummpers? hehe, it could have been alot worst. That reminds me when i reformatted one of my drives which was encryped. What i forgot was that that drive kept the encryption keys for all the other drives. Lost a total of 120GB from 3 different drives. That really sucked.

way you SHOULD have done it:

put 20gb in as slave drive alongside the 4gb, format it for ntfs, copy all documents you require onto the 20gb drive. take 20gb drive out and format the 4gb drive then fresh install windows xp on it, then plug the 20gb drive back in and there ya go - ya keep all your docos, have a spyware free system, and a secondary 20gb drive to play with

Try to click start->user picture mext to admin/username

CLick home->change the way users log of or off

And check the use welcome screen.

Then you should be able to log on as boogieman

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