I have spent hours upon hours online trying to fix what initially was a back-up (which I still havent found a solution for). I thought last week that I had and my back-ups where listed fine, come to find out they all failed and were empty. I went to find a solution, I done scans, checks and more scans to no resolve. I found a Windows forum yesterday that said that I can go into the registry and delete profiles.
The instrutions I followed:
The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002)
This problem is due to one or more profiles under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList with missing ProfileImagePath.
To check whether you have missing profiles:
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Open regedit, navigate to the above registry key. (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList). Expand the list
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Click on each of the profiles listed. The first 3 profiles should have ProfileImagePath value of
%SystemRoot%\System32\Config\SystemProfile,
%SystemRoot%\ServiceProfiles\LocalService, and
%SystemRoot%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService
respectively.
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Starting from the 4th profile, the ProfileImagePath should contain path to the user profiles on your machine, such as C:\users\Christine
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If one or more of the profile has no profile image, then you have missing profiles.
To work around this, delete the profile in question (Caution: The registry contains critical settings that are necessary for your system to function properly. Take extra caution while making changes)
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First, export the ProfileList key for safekeeping. (Right click on the key, choose “Export”, and save it to the desktop.)
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Right click on the profile in question, choose delete.
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Try backup again.</p>
The copies that I had made of the profiles (I made a copy of all of the per these instructions) wont work now, When I try to merge the one I delted back I get another
Error message: windows cannot find 'C:\Users\Leanne\Desktop\key4.reg' Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
My restore point would not work,
Error message: windows cannot find 'c:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe' Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
So I was on AboutTech.com's website with information about the Reuva software. I followed the instructions to run the portable program after downloading. When I try to run the program I get an
Error message: windows cannot find 'c:\Uswers\Leanne\Downloads\rcsetup151.exe' Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
I have concerns about having to reinstall Vista's operating system and trying to get all the updates (yet another thing that stopped working in the past month) But I am willing to do it if I can get a back up of my hard drive onto my external HDD. I have over 13 years worth of pictures that were on both but now my back up is gone, if my system crashes I loose everything.
Any and all help would be so wonderful, sorry for being so long winded.
Thanks in Advance