Re: recovery console and lass.exe error

From: WinGuy (no_spam_at_nomail.bot)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 15:59:01 GMT

"Brian" <brian@cablelynx.com> wrote in message
news:u4TW4MbfEHA.2000@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> im trying to fix a pc for a friend of mine. its a fairly new pc, a compaq
> presario desktop model. got a p4 2.0 512 ddr, 80gb hd, xp he, etc...
>
> i used the recovery console to do a emergency repair( replacing system,
> software, sam, security, and default with the backups from the repair
> folder. ) now when it boots up i get a lass.exe error saying something
about
> trying to update a password but couldnt verify something...i dont know
> exactly but thats the jist of it. anyway that message comes up every time
> and then the system shuts down.
>
> this has happened to me many times before but i never found out why or how
> to reverse it other than a format/reinstall.( not even a repair install
> fixed it). and when i try to get back into the recovery console it now
asks
> me for an admin. password.
>
> anyone got any ideas other than a format/reinstall?

:(

When you boot into Windows you always have to be sure that you use the same
type of XP cd for running the SFC /SCANNOW command as was used to install
the operating system the first time; i.e. use a XP-Home cd if XP-Home is
installed, and a XP-Pro cd if XP-Pro is installed. Also, use a SP1 version
of the cd if SP1 is installed. Caveat: I'm not yet sure if that procedure
can be used if SP2 is installed. SFC is used to replace damaged or improper
versions of essential operating system files, after which a Safe Mode boot
at the very least should be guaranteed. You can not run the SFC command from
the Recovery Console (RC). The RC copy utility is primarily only for repair
of individual files.

What your backup procedure is doing is anyone's guess, since you didn't
elaborate at all. And your backup/restore procedure is probably the very
cause of your current problem and will likely require a clean install of
Windows again. Note that many Windows operating system files can not be
restored from a backup, because they are in use when Windows itself is
running. Try using a 3rd party utility such as Norton's Ghost (it and GoBack
are the only 2 products they have that I approve of) for operating system
backup purposes in the future. You can NOT backup all *system* files, and
restore them again, without using a utility that is very specially designed
to do this sort of thing (normal copy methods will NOT do this properly for
you). In general, I recommend a 2nd HDD be used for creation of a cloned
"bootable copy" backup of a HDD and being careful to only use the HDD
manufactures' special utility for that purpose.

The error you have is a serious one, very fatal in of itself, and while it
could be (in time) corrected for the effort would be great and highly
annoying and involve a very, very large and time consuming learning curve.
You would be quite an expert when you finished the task! Best to just wipe
the HDD and start over from scratch, and use proper backup methods
thereafter. The User created data files, if you backed them up, are still
available and could be restored once you have the operating system and User
programs re-installed. You could copy the HDD to another to maintain backup
of the User created files, then wipe the HDD and start over from scratch and
then get the User created files from that backup if they currently still
exist on the HDD.

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