Cannot Copy NTUSER: (Cyclic Redundancy Check)

You’ve got it BACKWARDS – those are the files you DO NOT COPY !

One or more of those files is corrupted, and is the reason you can’t load your original User !

When you select multiple files and/or folders to copy at once, Windows stops copying when it encounters the first error.

How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811…

Excerpt

“Press and hold down the CTRL key while you click each file and subfolder in this folder, except the following files:
Ntuser.dat
Ntuser.dat.log
Ntuser.ini “

Note the EXCEPT !
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Don’t move the mouse while clicking on each file or subfolder, otherwise Windows will make a copy of it in the same parent folder .

Or

– click once on a blank area between the files and folders on the right side

– at the top of the window, select Edit – Select All

– hold down Crtl, click on the Ntuser… files one by one, to de-select those – let go of Ctrl

– place the cursor over the highlighted bar for any folder or file, RIGHT click, select Copy
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It’s a good idea to make sure your hard drive your Windows partition is on is not failing when you have a data corruption problem, BEFORE you attempt to fix the problem.

Check your hard drive with the manufacturer’s diagnostics.
See the latter part of response 1 in this:
http://www.computing.net/windows95/…

(thanks to Dan Penny for this link:)
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm…

If you don’t have a floppy drive, you can get a CD image diagnostic utility from most hard drive manufacturer’s web sites, but obviously you would need to make a burned CD, preferably a CD-R for best compatibilty, on another computer if you need to.

If the hard drive itself tests okay, any data problems found can be fixed, one way or another.