Can't log on to user profile

Hello, can anyone help me?

My pc recently died whilst running a backup, so now i have no backup.

Anyway, upon restarting after this issue, I can't log into my user
account fully. I can get to a plain black desktop and I get this message
in a bubble "Your user profile was not loaded correctly. You have been
logged on with the default profile for the system. Please see the event
log for details or contact your system administrator"

I can't access my files of programs

What can I do??

Vista Ultimate x64

Thanks


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chubby

Thanks for the reply shawn.

I can't carry out the process you gave me as under C\Users\ My profile
is not there. I found the appropriate profile in the registry and
deleted it but the profile was not recreated upon restart. Any ideas?

The profile, I can handle losing but is there any way I can recover my
files?


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chubby