Win10 copying

I have done a chkdsk on the flakey usb connected drive. The results are:

"Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

732572000 KB total disk space.
731065520 KB in 35822 files.
13788 KB in 5090 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
732584 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
760108 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
183143000 total allocation units on disk.
190027 allocation units available on disk" .

I will try the "new to me" drive C: next.

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Macrium didn't provide a download. Their page was stuck. AOMEI did download. I did a "quick scan" (no errors) before I did a "chkdsk".

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Whew! That took a long time. I have just finished getting "chkdsk c: /f /r" running on drive c:. I believe it means we can depend on the integrity of two drives. I will run "robocopy" without the /mir command.

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After messing with Disk Manager (in order to get the correct VHD), I ran a command:
"robocopy C:"mountpoint"\Users C:\Users /E" The mountpoint was "acer" for me. I couldn't get robocopy to work unless I included the "/E".

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"(in spite of my previous report) It would be a really great tutorial to know where all the component of a typical user's desktop is. For example, when you "right click" on the start button, you get a menu that has links. These are generally in \Users\someuser\AppData\local\low\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group[1,2,3]\someshortcut. This would save someone quite a bit of time.

The reason for investigating UID numbers is because:
(I can't find the picture, but it clearly said if you use the same name you may have a different number associated with this name. It was an warning message in Win10). I believe this forum is the best hope for this because of your detailed knowledge of Win10, especially the SID number. You don't have to include the components for everything, but the major components (such as the location of Desktop, documents, download, pictures, the "start" button, etc.) would give us a good start."

I need this now because everything on my taskbar has disappeared. A pointer to where the are supposed to be would be quite welcomed. This doesn't have to be hard. A graphic/jpg showing the common name and a reference to what should be there is what I am asking for.

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The UID number for a local account is CENTRAL to what direction I will go next. The best way to respond is to provide a way to get the UID number that previously existed for the "mazarick" account. It probably exists somewhere. I had previously thought (mistakenly) that if I created a new "mazarick" local account, it would be good. After reading this warning message from Microsoft, I thought better of it. Does anyone have an opinion?

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I am running into the same problem. The repeating error message I get is:

2020/05/29 18:34:22 ERROR 1920 (0x00000780) Copying File c:\acer\users\mazarick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\GameBarElevatedFT_Alias.exe The file cannot be accessed by the system.
Waiting 30 seconds...

When I simply try to copy the file, I get a similar error message. I am able to cd into c:\users\mazarick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps and into c:\acer\users\mazarick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps. I get the following error message:


When I look at it with File Explorer, I get:


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It looks like I had better go ahead and figure out the "windows powerfile" problem. This seems like a similar "head scratcher".

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I'd better start off with a file explorer and some properties. It should be remembered that I am logged in as mazar with the system named "mazarick-newPC".



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I have found out that the Win10 SID is equivalent to both the UID and GID in Linux/Unix... not exactly, but... it answers a question I had about Win10. I will have to read up on them some more to find out how the Mazar SID and the mazarick SID could be utilized to make the transition to mazarick as painless as possible. I really want to get back to where I was. It is confusing enough already.

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There are several commands that "half" work. For instance, the command "wmic useraccount get name,sid" works but "wmic useraccount where name="mazar" get sid" doesn't.

The theories of what is happening remains diverse. It includes:
1. The theory that in becoming a local account yesterday, it lost the ability to become "administrator".

In order to investigate, "properties" of mazar and mazarick willl be explored.

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If both the registry and SID entries are databases, it would help to know where they are and what they are called.

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The "properties" of C:\Users\mazarick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\GameBarElevatedFT_Alias.exe is provided:


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For comparison, Properties of C:\acer\Users\mazarick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\GameBarElevatedFT_Alias.exe


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Well, I just shot that theory in the a**. Back to the drawing board for a new theory.


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I wanted to find out what is working:
PS C:\acer\Users\mazarick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps> wmic useraccount get name,sid

Name SID
Administrator S-1-5-21-2926059229-399199362-2477179336-500 DefaultAccount S-1-5-21-2926059229-399199362-2477179336-503 Guest S-1-5-21-2926059229-399199362-2477179336-501
mazar S-1-5-21-2926059229-399199362-2477179336-1001 WDAGUtilityAccount S-1-5-21-2926059229-399199362-2477179336-504

I also wanted to find out why the copy isn't working:

PS C:\acer\Users\mazarick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps> copy GameBarElevatedFT_Alias.exe C:\Users\mazarick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

copy : The file cannot be accessed by the system.
'C:\Users\mazarick\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps'.
At line:1 char:1
+ copy GameBarElevatedFT_Alias.exe C:\Users\mazarick\AppData\Local\wind ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Copy-Item], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand

This is over my head but I use this for user profiles:

PCData Back

I believe the basic information that I have gathered is:
mazarick SID: Account Unknown(S-1-5-21-83155983-2981543892-4225205800-1000)

I don't know where the registry is or what it is called yet. I want to get back to a place I was before this started with mazarick as the primary account, Firefox as the default browser, Office 2007 installed (including Outlook).

This should be easy, but it is more complicated than that.

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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I was messing around with my posting to make it a little clearer (punctuation/spaces were added, lines moved) and I finally looked at your suggestion and downloaded it. I am in process of recovering now. I knew this was the right place; it has knowledgeable people who listen.

Mike

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Well, in my haste, I selected C:\acer. I got an error message that said c:\acer was not available, so I changed to H:\WindowsImageBackup\mazarick-newPC\Backup 3-27-2020. It indicates nothing is there (it was there previously).

Whatsup?

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I am currently accessing Disk Manager in order to get c:\acer to show up. It does. I am using PCData, selecting the C:\acer directory as the one I want to image from (this is correct, for now), and I've turned the three checkboxes on (skip copying system files, restore only missing files in the destination, skip copying hidden files)

That tool uses existing user profiles C:/Users)/***** and can move them to another machine.

Save profile to another drive and connect it to the machine that you're tranferring to. Run PCData Back on that machine to inport profile.


If the restored profile has problems use this to try to fix it.

Account Profile Fixer - I've only used it twice but it worked both times.

I think that it would need to be the active partition - the boot partition for PCData Back to see it and the user profiles that it contains.

Reading back though the thread - I thought that you wanted to move a working profile from one drive to another (or another machine).

If the problem profile exists in your working windows installation then use APF to fix it.

If you just copied the user profile as a backup then you will probably never get it to work. All you could hope for is to copy personal files and folders across.

I'm not expert on this so could be wrong.

Where did this profile or profile copy originate and how did you copy it in the first place?

Everything I can find on the subject says that profiles must be copied using a temporary admin account so if you copied via another method then you'll probably never get it back.

Some info here;

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...2-7a55a1a6b04f

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