I restarted my computer when I got home from work, just now, and when windows started, it gave me this error:


DETAIL - An I/O operation initiated by the registry failed unrecoverably. The registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the registry.

My entire computer is acting weird, it appears that all of my settings for my programs are gone. Including my desktop icon's location, my program list (Start -> All Programs) are all out of place, and I apparently cannot put a background on my desktop.

What is going on? I've never seen this before .

Needless to say that A LOT of my programs are not loading, giving me errors. What in the hell.

Have you tried restarting again? It might be a bad sector, I'm not sure what you do with those in Windows, but google might help

I've restarted it quite a few times, get the same exact thing .

Try to scan your drive for errors and select "Check for and attempt recovery of bad sectors".  Do this at a time you won't need the computer for a while, because you will have to reboot to run the scan, it will take a good while, and you won't be able use the computer until the scan finishes.

I'm going to scan it after I post this message, but I'm also getting this error when the Welcome screen comes on:

Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.


DETAIL - An I/O operation initiated by the registry failed unrecoverably. The registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the registry.

Edit: Here is the second error message I get when I click OK to the error message above:

Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system.


DETAIL - Access is denied.


And Chris, I did what you suggested, and I restarted my computer, and the scandisk program popped up for like 10 seconds, and it said that the volume was clean?

well I would suggest:

Gain root access somehow. If you can't log in as administrator, find a BartPE or GNU/Linux live CD. Check /Documents and Settings/you/NTUSER.DAT. If you have a copy somewhere, eg /Documents and Settings/Default User, try copying it across. Back up the original first

If NTUSER.DAT was fine, the problem is probably a broken domain controller. Anyone know which files to replace if that is the case?

Thanks guys, got it all fixed .

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Thanks guys, got it all fixed

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Originally posted by RebelSean
I did what you suggested, and I restarted my computer, and the scandisk program popped up for like 10 seconds, and it said that the volume was clean?

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Mind telling how? for future reference, you know.... Think you did a system restore...

Yes, Voldies & Chris, I called Trekkie and he told me to do a system restore, I was actually reading him the error message and he was like yeah blah blah blah just do a system restore and it will fix it .

And Chris, I was looking at my event log viewer, and I have like over two hundred errors in the past two days and they all say:

The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block.

And the event ID is 7.

But now I noticed something new, from today, it's a DCOM error and here's what event viewer says:

DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service upnphost with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{204810B9-73B2-11D4-BF42-00B0D0118B56}

Event ID: 10005