I have been fixing/working on my pc for the last 5 days. I'm really bad about posting specs because I'm never sure what's needed, but since so far things are going my way with the pc for now I post the short version.
I have a rebuilt HP with:
Vista business 64bit, AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core processor 3800+ 2GHz
Samsung 80GB HDD ATA, Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD(will be my new HDD) Samsung 500GB in a Nexstar 3 external enclosure, ATA Radeon Xpress 1150, Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard. Everything else is standard.
The problem I've had/have still is ALL our user accounts had the user profile service service can't log in message, so I was booting from (maybe stupidly) from my Nexstar, which is actually my old HDD from my slimline that I cannabilized(sp?) when the power suuply died. That HDD ended up with BSOD so I finally started looking for answers to how to fix the user accounts. As of now I can only use the hidden Administrators acct., I set up in safe mode command prompt. I'm able to use it now in a regular boot mode, but even though I was able to create a new user acct. with admin priviliges I still got the user profile service I'm gonna ignore you message with the new account.
All our user accts in the profile lists in regedit had bak at the end and when I did create the new one it's not showing up. I was able to delete my son's but what 's the use of deleting the other 2 inaccessable one's if I still won't be able to use them.
So since I wanted to use my 2TB as my main HDD anyway I've been trying to backup and restore the original 80GB using the recovery CD's that came with this rebuild, but it's been so screwed up it wouldn't back up to my external or my other drive. And the recovery CD's won't work unless I have a backup. And the 80GB wouldn't create a backup using any kind of burning image.
After reading everything relating to every part of my problem I decided to erase my external since it had Vista home on it anyway and I saved all our files to my son's pc manually (ugh!)and now so far the 80GB is backing up to the external HD using Windows backup. When that's done I'm going to use the recovery CD's and then clone that to my 2TB with fingers crossed. I hope I made sense, I haven't had much sleep lately.