Re: can't finish logon process completely

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Try the directions I supplied to John. If my method does not work for you
then reclone the drive as per Norton Ghost's directions.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

"brandon dub" <brandondub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sounds good, nice easy details and a bonus gold star for understanding
Chows
orphaned message.
I have a problem logging on as my boot screen shows the windows XP black
screen loading.... .... .... then the blue logon screen but no polite
message
saying "please wait while windows loads" (whereafter the User Accounts
would
show up).

I cloned my drive C:<backup> to M:<Max> with Norton Ghost 9 forgetting I
labeled drive M; previously. I didn't think this would be an issue as the
MBR would be written over anyway? Is this a WPA thing or a bad clone or
should I follow chows path?
thanks.
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Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


"WTC" wrote:

"Johnny Chow" <jchow10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer. That
is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I
logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry.
There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect to
the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if you
need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot by a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry to
make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003
machine
to perform these steps.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User







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