Accidently reset the SIDs and now Windows 2003 SBS will not load

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From: gavinlew (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:36:39 -0700

Help, I accidently reset the SIDs and now Windows 2003
SBS will not load--because windows cannot see the hard
drives!

How this happened was the partition commander hide a file
and to unhide it, I changed the SID!

Well, our options are to reinstall SBS 2003, in which
case config will be lost...
or what ?

We can see the drives and the files within the drives, so
is there a way to restore the SID so windows can see it?

Right now, I cannot boot. I can get to a DOS prompt and
get windows to try to Repair (which asks for a disk we do
not have or gets me to a command line) or install...

Thoughts?
glew@usercentric.com

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