Help needed Stand alone win2k

[The PIT]

Error message when trying to log on.

Cannot load user profile Error out of disk space.

There is over 2 gigs of space free on the hard drive.

Microshaft have nothing as per normal and google comes up with nothing.

[Tjalfe]

do you have norton AV with the norton protected recycle bin installed.. in that case, windows will report one thing, but the space is not accessable as Norton hogs it with the recycle bin. empty norton protected files and regain much space, if you never did it before
if this is not the case, I will have to think harder about what it could be ...

[The PIT]

Don't know for sure as it's not my machine. But looking at the others I doubt it very much.
Note the disk space is reported by Dos as we can't login. This means the hardrive is Fat32. I don't have the admin password so I don't know whether that works.
Too be honest since I haven't found anything on the web I probably take the easy way out and take a ghost image of another machine and sort it that way.

[Tjalfe]

Probably the bettet solution.. and since you can get to the disk in dos, you can back up whatever is needed from it first
the machine will not let you get in in safe mode either?

[The PIT]

Nope same message haven't tried admin account as we bottled out from changing it from linux disk in case the administrator got upset. He should be in tomorrow. Really the person who took the call should have took the password from him.

[agallag]

I was going to say that problems like this are usually due to permissions on the file system, but if it is in fact FAT32, then that can't be the problem. Very strange indeed.

[agallag]

Here's a possibility:

http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread/t-4419.html

[The PIT]

Yes thats the other probability of a corrupted folder. Another reason why I want to login as Admin to see if that still works. If it doesn't we're still bollocked anyway.

[Maggi]

Did you already try to boot into safemode with a cmdline interface ?

From there you could manually launch explorer and maybe do a check disk or whatever.

[Drizzt]

If it's a Fat32 system, try to boot with a Win9x CD and do a scandisk.

[Kurt]

if it's corrupted, scandisk might just decide it's not useful and create nice *.chk files... anyway...not a good idea unless you can safely image the drive and play with the copy...