Windows 10: User account disappear but home dir OK

Hello,

My computer had a glitch and after rebooting it I cannot see my account () at the login screen. I can login as administrator and I can see the home directory C:\Users\ is there with all its files. I am not very technical and I have read that recreating a new account may overwrite the previous one and may delete files. My question is how can I create a new account and give it the C:\Users\ home directory without losing any file?

Many thanks,



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Windows 10 Update Changed My User Login Account

Here it is. I should mention that I earlier tried to create new profiles thinking maybe one was attached to the old one. Yeah...I know. Dumb. But I was desperate. In any case, at the bottom in the directory of users, you see Carol, which is the one that
used to be the default user and then Carol.CAROL-PC, which is what Windows starts with now. I have no idea where that came from. Maybe because CAROL-PC was the name of my computer?

User accounts for \\CAROL-PC

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Administrator Carol clbai

DefaultAccount Guest kaity

WDAGUtilityAccount

The command completed successfully.

User name Carol

Full Name

Comment

User's comment

Country/region code 000 (System Default)

Account active Yes

Account expires Never

Password last set 3/4/2018 12:01:00 AM

Password expires Never

Password changeable 3/4/2018 12:01:00 AM

Password required No

User may change password Yes

Workstations allowed All

Logon script

User profile

Home directory

Last logon 3/4/2018 1:10:47 PM

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Debugger Users

*HomeUsers

Global Group memberships *None

The command completed successfully.

USERDOMAIN=CAROL-PC

USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE=CAROL-PC

USERNAME=Carol

USERPROFILE=C:\Users\Carol.CAROL-PC

Volume in drive C is Windows

Volume Serial Number is 7A49-FD8C

Directory of c:\users

03/04/2018 12:18 AM <DIR> .

03/04/2018 12:18 AM <DIR> ..

03/04/2018 01:53 PM <DIR> Carol

03/03/2018 09:21 PM <DIR> Carol.CAROL-PC

03/04/2018 12:09 AM <DIR> clbai

12/30/2016 04:37 PM <DIR> Default.migrated

03/03/2018 10:52 PM <DIR> Public

0 File(s) 0 bytes

7 Dir(s) 588,199,112,704 bytes free

User accounts for \\CAROL-PC

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Administrator Carol clbai

DefaultAccount Guest kaity

WDAGUtilityAccount

The command completed successfully.

User name Carol

Full Name

Comment

User's comment

Country/region code 000 (System Default)

Account active Yes

Account expires Never

Password last set 3/4/2018 12:01:00 AM

Password expires Never

Password changeable 3/4/2018 12:01:00 AM

Password required No

User may change password Yes

Workstations allowed All

Logon script

User profile

Home directory

Last logon 3/4/2018 1:10:47 PM

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Debugger Users

*HomeUsers

Global Group memberships *None

The command completed successfully.

USERDOMAIN=CAROL-PC

USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE=CAROL-PC

USERNAME=Carol

USERPROFILE=C:\Users\Carol.CAROL-PC

Volume in drive C is Windows

Volume Serial Number is 7A49-FD8C

Directory of c:\users

03/04/2018 12:18 AM <DIR> .

03/04/2018 12:18 AM <DIR> ..

03/04/2018 01:53 PM <DIR> Carol

03/03/2018 09:21 PM <DIR> Carol.CAROL-PC

03/04/2018 12:09 AM <DIR> clbai

12/30/2016 04:37 PM <DIR> Default.migrated

03/03/2018 10:52 PM <DIR> Public

0 File(s) 0 bytes

7 Dir(s) 588,199,104,512 bytes free

 

to delete or not to delete

thanks

okay i get that, so for e.g "nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06_final1_armel" thats in /home/user/MyDocs but is installed to mmc can be delete from the MyDocs dir.

 

Hi, I would advise you to use chkdsk to check your file system first:
From an admin command prompt
[Windows key + X, click command prompt (admin)]
chkdsk C: /F
Your PC will need to restart.
Make sure the result is clear or fixed- else do not proceed.
Post back the result, which you can get after a restart as follows:
How do I see the results of a CHKDSK that ran on boot? - Ask Leo!

Then maybe you can reactivate the account using this
net user USERNAME /active:yes
from an administrative command prompt, where USERNAME = enrix.

Then if successful, disable the administrator account.

 

Hi dalchina,

thanks for your reply. I have tried your suggestions and few others I have found on the internet but at the end the only one that worked was to run a system restore.

thx,

Enrico