- Aug 14, 2013
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PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS, AS IM GETTING EXTREMELY DESPERATE NOW. I WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL.
After partially partitioning my hard drive using Active Partition Recovery programme (was stopped half way through partition), I found that all desktop icons and apps had disappeared. The start menu became unresponsive, and I knew I had seriously messed up the system. I immediately restarted the computer and logged in with the normal account only to come to a Black screen with nothing but a white cursor and the message 'This copy of windows is not genuine' in the bottom right of the screen. (It is genuine though, as I forked out my hard earned fuckin* cash to buy it from the local computer shop).
Anyway ive been surfing the web all day for fixes to this problem, and have managed to make small progress, by starting Task manager and creating a 'New task' for 'explorer.exe'. However, this brings up a few Icons and the old desktop but I get the message 'You have been logged on with a temporary profile' and as such - I cannot access any folders and any changes I make will be deleted at next login. I eventually found the option to transfer administrative privellages from 'TrustedInstaller' to 'Andrew' (my account) but I get the error 'Cannot access control editor. The system cannot find the path specified". Ive tried 'chkdsk' command prompt - which took a few hours - to no avail, and when I try to open any applications I get the message 'no such interface supported' .
So Ive obviously corrupted the profile or screwed up the registries when I tried to bloody partition the hard drive, but im not sure what to do now. Im very hesitant to do a complete utility restore because I have so many important work related documents stored on there (as do my parents), family photos, etc. and I know they are still there, as I can see all the folders are still in place (and take up room on the hard drive) but I cannot access any files within them and the system cant seem to locate the file path of certain apps - thus I cannot make backup copies of anything.
For example, iTunes is one of the few applications that comes up on the desktop on this temporary profile, but when I try to open it I get the message 'Apple application support was not found'. Just to add insult to injury however - Paint, calculator and notepad seem to function fine on the temp profile, the only drawback being that they are next to useless applications.
On a sidenote, the 2nd profile that mum uses wont even log in whatsoever, it just logs back out straight away. Also, safe mode is not much different. I can run certain tasks as administrator, but I cannot access any files or control panel. Im not very tech savy so I probably shouldn't of tried that partition shit in the first place (which ironically was to recover files off a damaged external hard drive), but all that means is that I have no clue what to do now.
Should I try inserting the win7 disk that came with it, running a system repair, changing the boot order in BIOS, or deleting the corrupt profile(s) and making a new one - or will that cause all data to be lost? Im still holding onto any hope of recovering the files on the computer, but that hope is dwindling, and I have a major assignment - among other things - that I had written which is in the bowels of this bloody machine (im using a mates computer at the moment).
So basically I don't have a clue in hell what to do next? If any of you have encountered similar problems or can suggest a solution thanks in advance, and A SINCERE THANKS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS THROUGH. Needless to say, if I do manage to get my data back -- ill sure as hell be making backups of everything.
After partially partitioning my hard drive using Active Partition Recovery programme (was stopped half way through partition), I found that all desktop icons and apps had disappeared. The start menu became unresponsive, and I knew I had seriously messed up the system. I immediately restarted the computer and logged in with the normal account only to come to a Black screen with nothing but a white cursor and the message 'This copy of windows is not genuine' in the bottom right of the screen. (It is genuine though, as I forked out my hard earned fuckin* cash to buy it from the local computer shop).
Anyway ive been surfing the web all day for fixes to this problem, and have managed to make small progress, by starting Task manager and creating a 'New task' for 'explorer.exe'. However, this brings up a few Icons and the old desktop but I get the message 'You have been logged on with a temporary profile' and as such - I cannot access any folders and any changes I make will be deleted at next login. I eventually found the option to transfer administrative privellages from 'TrustedInstaller' to 'Andrew' (my account) but I get the error 'Cannot access control editor. The system cannot find the path specified". Ive tried 'chkdsk' command prompt - which took a few hours - to no avail, and when I try to open any applications I get the message 'no such interface supported' .
So Ive obviously corrupted the profile or screwed up the registries when I tried to bloody partition the hard drive, but im not sure what to do now. Im very hesitant to do a complete utility restore because I have so many important work related documents stored on there (as do my parents), family photos, etc. and I know they are still there, as I can see all the folders are still in place (and take up room on the hard drive) but I cannot access any files within them and the system cant seem to locate the file path of certain apps - thus I cannot make backup copies of anything.
For example, iTunes is one of the few applications that comes up on the desktop on this temporary profile, but when I try to open it I get the message 'Apple application support was not found'. Just to add insult to injury however - Paint, calculator and notepad seem to function fine on the temp profile, the only drawback being that they are next to useless applications.
On a sidenote, the 2nd profile that mum uses wont even log in whatsoever, it just logs back out straight away. Also, safe mode is not much different. I can run certain tasks as administrator, but I cannot access any files or control panel. Im not very tech savy so I probably shouldn't of tried that partition shit in the first place (which ironically was to recover files off a damaged external hard drive), but all that means is that I have no clue what to do now.
Should I try inserting the win7 disk that came with it, running a system repair, changing the boot order in BIOS, or deleting the corrupt profile(s) and making a new one - or will that cause all data to be lost? Im still holding onto any hope of recovering the files on the computer, but that hope is dwindling, and I have a major assignment - among other things - that I had written which is in the bowels of this bloody machine (im using a mates computer at the moment).
So basically I don't have a clue in hell what to do next? If any of you have encountered similar problems or can suggest a solution thanks in advance, and A SINCERE THANKS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS THROUGH. Needless to say, if I do manage to get my data back -- ill sure as hell be making backups of everything.
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