From: philo@privcy.not   
      
   I was given a Gateway... XP Media Center machine to repair.   
      
   It would not boot normally or to safe mode due to the SATA driver being   
   corrupted. (It blue-screened)   
      
   I could not do a system restore as the owner was given no media...the   
   only choice was a factory restore which would have been a major PITA.   
      
      
   After running diagnostics on the RAM and HD and finding all OK...   
      
   I looked at the drive configuration in the BIOS and saw there was an   
   option to configure the SATA drives as IDE.   
      
      
   It got past the point where it blue-screened and looked like it was   
   going to work OK but I got a message that it could not log me on to the   
   owner's profile and it was going to create a temporary profile.   
      
   I was able to then log on, perform a System Restore   
   and all seems to be working fine now.   
      
      
   The weird thing...in all the years I've been repairing computers...   
   I never saw a temporary profile being set up.   
      
      
   Just curious to see if anyone ran into that before?   
      
      
      
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