Windows 7 System Restore corrupts profile
On Windows 7, my profile gets currupted after using the System Restore.I am using Windows 7 64bit Ultimate.I have two drives:C: System (SSD, Not using BitLocker)D: Data (Raid10, Using BitLocker) - Drive is manually decrypted.A windows profile was moved to the D: drive and a NTFS Directory Junction was used to redirect access.e.g."C:\Users\YourProfile\" moved to "D:\YourProfile\"Then using the following command to create the link.MKLINK /J C:\Users\YourProfile D:\YourProfileI am using this setup because I want my data/files encrypted but I don't want to lose the performance of having my operating system running unencrypted on a Solid-State HDD.Of course I need to first unlock the drive to login the account with the profile stored on D: drive (BitLocker). I wrote myself an application/service that checks a thumbdrive and automatically unlocks the drive. Without it I would first need to login an account first to unlock the drive, logout and then login the profile thats stored on D: drive (BitLocker).Anyways, now to the problem. This setup works totally fine, the only problem is if I ever perform a system restore (rollback). Using it either from within Windows or the recovery console. After the restore is finnished, when I attempt to login the profile... it logs me into a temporaray profile (and yes, the drive is unlocked).A some point the profile got damaged or some identifier mismatch occured between the system and the profile.I have not been able to detmerman how to fix the problem or prevent it occuring other then to avoid using System Restore (Rollback).Undoing the rollback does not fix the problem with the profile being corrupted.My only recourse of action is to deletethe Directory Junction, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList in the registry and delete the {sid}.bak key and login to create a new profile. But then of course I lose all my personal settings, etc.I would like to know how to repair the damaged profile.And also see about getting the “System Restore” altered so it doesn’t mess up the profile in the first place.I know I have a non-standard profile setup but it shouldn’t break it.
February 21st, 2010 2:40pm

Haha, lol. I had the same problem twice on different PC's. And no solution yet. System restore will corrupt the NTUSER.DAT...blf files. That much I found out. Last time I could copy all the ntuser files from a backup, this time I am hosed. So same problem and - based on the amount of users who have that very same configuration, Microsoft, it might be appropriate to find at least a fix :-) Thank you kindly!
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