Re: Login to Windows 2003 Immediately Logs Out

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There are several ways out of your predicament. Here are
three of them:

1. Install the disk as a slave disk in some other Win2000/XP
PC, then edit the "System" registry file with regedit.exe
on that machine.
2. Boot the machine with a Bart PE boot CD (www.bootdisk.com),
then do the same as in Method 1.
3. Boot the machine with a Nordahl boot diskette
(http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html),
then use the available commands to edit the registry.

Option 1 requires another PC.
Option 2 requires a CD burner, a WinXP Professional CD
(but no licence number!) and about three hours of your time.
Option 3 requires a fair amount of tolerance to an arcane
command syntax.

I always go for Option 2. To me a Bart PE CD is an
indispensable tool.


"Will" <westes-usc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:i7GdnWwEGJntrkXenZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Well, fixmbr did not fix this problem, unfortunately. Since this is a
> Windows 2003 server with Windows firewall on and not in any domain,
> connecting to it from a network might be a hassle even if I had a machine
on
> the network to connect to it (I don't).
>
> Is there any application - I am willing to pay money for it - that would
let
> me boot using the old system drive, and then open up the SYSTEM hive on
the
> *new* boot device, write changes to it. Such an application would be a
> life saver in many situations I'm sure, although it would also obviously
be
> a huge security problem.
>
> --
> Will
>
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:#kz2cfXIGHA.140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Yes, you could delete all DosDevice entries. You could
> > also run fixmbr from the Recovery Console, because this
> > changes the disk volume identity, thus forcing a re-assignment
> > of all drive letters.
> >
> > Editing the registry via a network connection is by far
> > the fastest and easiest way.
>
>


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