Vista Profile login error

Hi!

I need some help. I have computer with two hard drives. Drive C: is loaded with Windows 7 and works just find. Drive F: is loaded with Windows Vista and I cannot login. I have a profile error.

The computer is set up with drive C and master drive and F as slave drive. There is a boot loader which allows selection of which os to load. If I select widows 7 it loads and I can login just fine and access both drives for document files.

However, on drive F: I have several programs that were loaded in Vista and can only be run in Vista and I need to access those programs and their respective data files which I cannot at this time due to the profile error.

I have already loaded windows 7 and used the command prompt with administrator access to activate the administrator login in windows 7. However, when I tried the same thing by changing the directory to the F: drive and trying to activate the administrator there it didn't work. I looked in the user directory on the F: drive and I did not even find the administrator directory existed. So I tried to create an administrator directory. It is there but still no luck with trying to get an administrator login.

Help, I am really desperate because I need to access these programs and their files.

Thanks.

Hello Fisherlee, and welcome to Vista Forums.

If this is the user profile error that you mean, then this tutorial may be able to help you fix it.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/1...-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Shawn

That is the user profile login error that I am experiencing but the procedure doesn't seem to be helping. I have tried to go into safe mode and login. When I do it brings up my regular login name...I type in the password and I am logged into safe mode but all that shows up on my screen is just a blank black screen with the words safe mode in white letters in each of the four corners. The mouse pointer is in the center of the screen and will move but that is it. I have no curser....what am I supposed to do with the blank screen???

I just have to do cntrl-alt-del to log off and then shut the system down again.

I don't seem to understand where the default administrator account is in safe mode. I thought it would show up on the logon screen but it doesn't.

I also have another question. Since the only way I have been able to get into the cmd prompt is by loging on through windows 7 on the C drive how do I edit the registry of the profile on the F drive. Even though I go to the F driver user directory and type REGEDIT there when I look at the profile path I am looking at the one on the C drive. How do I direct the REGEDIT to look at the F drive and make profile changes there?

Sorry, but unfortunately you will not be able to edit Vista's registry from inside Windows 7.

You could also try doing a System Restore at boot using a restore point (if available) dated before the this error to see if it may be able to fix this instead.