Re: Windows 2003 Logs on and then imediately logs me off
Hello Steve,
You may not be done. You still may have the incorrect drive letter in
place.
The reboot was just one failure which relied on the explicit drive pathing.
There may be other failures as well, that are not as obvious as the reboot
at logon.
Open a CMD prompt
Run set hit enter
What is system drive set to? It should be C: according to the registry
setting.
run regedit
Look at HKLM\system\mounteddevices
The dosdevices\C: needs to point to the correct volume GUID
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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| >From: steve <stevesemple@lycos.com>
| >Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.general
| >Subject: Re: Windows 2003 Logs on and then imediately logs me off
| >Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:51:08 -0700 (PDT)
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| >Thanks. That looks like yet another tool to put in the arsenal.
| >
| >I also found this ...
| >
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/peboot.htm
| >
| >Which is instuctions on how to edit the registry and make changes to
| >the path of the Userinit.exe file.
| >
| >So I booted with ultimate Boot CD used regedit. Strangely when I
| >looked at the registery setting it appears that it was pointing to the
| >right place. eg c:\winnt\system32 (its a winnt) path because it was an
| >upgrade from nt. So bearing in mind that the right path as far as I
| >know was already in the registry I extrapolated the info from
| >
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249321 which basically says to get rid
| >of the path, I did this and it allowed me to log back in.
| >
| >So to recap for anyone else caught in this.
| >
| >1. boot ultimate boot cd.
| >2. open command prompt and start regedit.
| >3. Follow the instructions in
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/peboot.htm
| >4. If the proper path is listed in the registry. Try putting in no
| >path as the microsoft kb article states
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249321
| >eg
| >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version
| >\Winlogon\Userinit:Reg_SZ:userinit.exe
| >
| >Reboot.
| >
| >Thanks for all your assitance.
| >Now back to testing and playing about.
| >