Don't let this happen to you! Windows XP Profile Crouption

Haruka

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    Well, NEVER TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER WORNG!!!

    I never learn my lesson. I had 2 profile crouptions, the 1st time, I didn't have system restore on and the 2nd time the system restore is on.

    It's horrifying... It takes alot of time and effort to restore a croupted profile. (well, especially.) I had to use a alot of steps to slove the problem. If none of those works, I have to create a new username on my own computer (well, it's took long enough to copy all the files from the old My Dcuments) Well, never, ever turn off your computer because the data that isn't saved on the harddrive will be lost and it can croupt your data on your harddrive and also can lead to harddrive crouption. If your system files get croupted, you are a gonner. Then you will have to reinstall the whole operating system and it can get a pain in a neck..

    Don't turn off your computer worng, use shut down on the start menu.

    Edit: Success!!! I was lucky (thanks to safe mode...) !
     
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    Your hard drive(s) should be NTFS if you're in Windows XP. That is a journaling format, so even if I pulled the plug on my PC right now, it'd be fine. I wouldn't have to do scan disk when I rebooted. NTFS is also less prone to fragmentation and is a little faster. You an change file systems on the fly, without formatting. I suggest you switch to NTFS if you are not already using it.


    It's always wise to have a burner of some kind and back up all your data; not OS, but data weekly or at least monthly. Oh, and it's spelled corrupt. ^_^;;
     
    My computer is already formatted in NTFS. I always get blue screens and i have to use chkdsk and sometimes (rarely) my username profile gets croupte


    I want a better computer now..

    Nowounder why... I have the write caching on... o.o
     
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    That's weird. You get blue screens on XP? I never do. AOL screws up Windows pretty bad, that's all I can think of...
     
    I see that... AOL is a bad and evil program.. It can damage the whole operating system because it's buggy... maybe I should revert back to 7.0 and get out of this problem.. (mainly, chkdsk will not work correctly when the system shut down improperly)

    9.0 optimised is EVIL!!!!
     
    XP is just bad...it doesn't have or impliment java, and thus it is a bad bad software program...SHIZZAH!

    wait...

    yeah

    BOO ya!
     
    It even worse in ME.
    I hate it.
    Should I change it???
    It was super slow and alway restart by itself.
     
    You need to get more memory then If it crashes too much. Windows XP should always run on atleast 128 MB. 64 will cause it to slow down or even crash.
     
    Hehehehe! *laughs collapses* I have 40 OSes on TWO hdd's and 33 of them are corrupted. Also, I prefer Linux. Ran it for 4 months and I always pull the plug instead of shutting it down.
     
    I dislike Windows XP. But I don't really care. So long as it is a working computer :P
     
    Windows 98 and Me is a nightmare... I get a blue screen every time I do something advanced.... like making art in a program or going on the internet... :o... it takes time away from me to reboot... no more problems of that. Windows XP solved that problem but arose new problems since I shut down my computer worng. Once I get a another stick of memory, it will be faster to shut down/
     
    Haruka said:
    Windows 98 and Me is a nightmare... I get a blue screen every time I do something advanced.... like making art in a program or going on the internet... :o... it takes time away from me to reboot... no more problems of that. Windows XP solved that problem but arose new problems since I shut down my computer worng. Once I get a another stick of memory, it will be faster to shut down/
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    My window XP is deadly fast! Never restart without my order!
    XP > All
    I also add more memory too.
    Drive C:80GB*
    Drive D:60GB
    Drive E:60GB
    Drive F:40GB*
    Wow...240GB...*don't know what is all that space for*
    It was too much for me...
    I use 40GB by far...
     
    Austin, Thats harddrive space... Bleh!

    BTW: it's also called petitions... o_O...
     
    Partitions. ;p

    I think they have 300 GB hard drives now, so over 2 terabytes in a machine would be possible with a PCI card for controlling them.
     
    But there is 1 problem. You cannot hibernate anymore.. :-/
     
    Hibernation never works, saves little power, and usually causes crashes. >.< I just turn off my monitor to save power if I want to.
     
    Thats the down sides... :D... never buy newly developed techology.
     
    o_O I can hibernate (but why would I do that, my comp's on all day) over a RAID 0 using 4 Serial ATA drives (Mass Storage Controller, Integrated) w00t 400MBps transfer rate!
    ----------------
    I have 2.8TB of storage in an Iomega NAS (Network umm... whatever Storage). (or two)
    Consider one of those.
     
    My old one never could either. x_x;

    Shingo, that sounds like overkill for a personal computer.
     
    Haruka said:
    Well, NEVER TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER WORNG!!!

    I never learn my lesson. I had 2 profile crouptions, the 1st time, I didn't have system restore on and the 2nd time the system restore is on.

    It's horrifying... It takes alot of time and effort to restore a croupted profile. (well, especially.) I had to use a alot of steps to slove the problem. If none of those works, I have to create a new username on my own computer (well, it's took long enough to copy all the files from the old My Dcuments) Well, never, ever turn off your computer because the data that isn't saved on the harddrive will be lost and it can croupt your data on your harddrive and also can lead to harddrive crouption. If your system files get croupted, you are a gonner. Then you will have to reinstall the whole operating system and it can get a pain in a neck..

    Don't turn off your computer worng, use shut down on the start menu.

    Edit: Success!!! I was lucky (thanks to safe mode...) !
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    It sounds like something in Windows XP became corrupt and caused this. Have you tried a dirty reinstall of Windows XP? A dirty reinstall is basically poping in the install CD while windows is running, selecting the upgrade option, and upgrading your PC to WinXP. Do you have SP1 installed? You might (my CD installs XP SP1 so I never checked) have to reinstall it after the dirty install.

    Also, would you tell me the specs on your system? I think there might be a hardware issue. E.g. Loose cable, improperly seated graphics card, cheaply made power supply unit, etc.
     
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