I changed my user account name and now my laptop is unable to boot up.

Anonymous
2020-08-07T09:27:54+00:00

C:\users\susan\

I didn't like my name was incomplete, it was "susan" insted of "susanta" in users folder. So i searched on internet to how to change it.

What I did: Win + r, searched "netplwiz", opened up a window called User Accounts, I select on the the only account(admin account), I click on properties, it opens up a new window allowing me to change my username, I change my username and click apply. But still the folder name is "susan". Then i can't find my account on the users list where I changed it. Then i think restart could solve my problem, But when i restart it won't boot up and can't auto repair.

Please help.please....

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-09T19:35:23+00:00

    I know what you're talking about. Windows just creates a shorter directory from the actual name.

    There are still a couple of questions. Why can't you perform system recovery? Why can't you reinstall Windows 10? If you have any files that you did not back up that are important?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-09T17:14:36+00:00

    No... it's already susan.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-09T15:03:04+00:00

    (1) At the Automatic Repair screen, click the "Advanced Options" button.

         That should get to the "Choose an Option" screen.

    (2) Click "Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Command Prompt".

         This reboots to a Command Prompt.

    (3) Enter the following commands...

    DiskPart                  <<<Open Diskpart

    List  Vol                   <<<List the volume letters

    Exit                          <<<Exit DiskPart

    Can you tell which letter is on your Windows partition? Then use it (instead of C:)...

    DIR  C:\Users  /a<<<Show the user names

    Do you see the user name that was renamed? Try renaming it back...

    REN  C:\Users\Susanta  Susan <<<But use the letter you saw above

    Close the Command Prompt, then click "Continue" to see whether Windows will boot. I hope that does it. Here is what it looked like for me, but I didn't do the REN (rename)...

    Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.1]

    (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    X:\windows\system32>DiskPart

    Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.1

    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.

    On computer: MININT-4CK8MLL

    DISKPART> List Vol

      Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info

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

      Volume 0     D                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media

      Volume 1     C   PCR Hard     NTFS   Partition    930 GB  Healthy                 <<<Mine is still C: there

      Volume 2     E   WinRE 2004   NTFS   Partition    847 MB  Healthy

      Volume 3         ESP          FAT32  Partition     99 MB  Healthy    Hidden

    DISKPART> Exit

    Leaving DiskPart...

    X:\windows\system32>DIR C:\Users /a<<<List the Users

     Volume in drive C is PCR Hard

     Volume Serial Number is F4D4-2928

     Directory of c:\Users

    07/09/2020  07:07 PM    <DIR>          .

    07/09/2020  07:07 PM    <DIR>          ..

    12/07/2019  01:30 AM    <SYMLINKD>     All Users [C:\ProgramData]

    07/09/2020  07:55 PM    <DIR>          Default

    12/07/2019  01:30 AM    <JUNCTION>     Default User [C:\Users\Default]

    12/07/2019  01:12 AM               174 desktop.ini

    07/26/2020  11:48 AM    <DIR>          pcrrc                                            <<<My username showed up

    07/09/2020  07:15 PM    <DIR>          Public

                   1 File(s)            174 bytes

                   7 Dir(s)  945,861,312,512 bytes free

    X:\windows\system32>

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-09T06:51:10+00:00

    Between you and I. I can't take any more of this clowning with keeping me out of the shower without washing my hair. 

    • The Lenovo download website(account required) https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/lenovorecovery?linkTrack=Body:Box:RecoveryMedia
    • The damn EAX Polackas have been roaming about EAX audio for years fix by a simple file rename for (dbghelp_old.dll)
    • And of course the fact that this topic is a discussion in differences. What does Secure Disk have to do with recovery and out of bios settings I don't know. This guy is probably staring at a DAMAGE RANGE LONG DVI port. I know that secure disk will not boot unless you turn it on in the bios.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-08-09T06:15:14+00:00

    No i did not find anything, except those 3 folders already present in profilelist.

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