DOH! Thanks Andrew. I should have thought of that. Anyway it appears that the machine has had it's drive letters changed since the logs show numerous errors of the kind: "The server service was unable to recreate the share x because the directory C:\Documents and Settings\x\Desktop\x no longer exists" and "The system cannot find the path specified."
Going further, I connected Computer Management to that computer and under Disk Management it shows the boot and system drive as Drive Letter F -it was C. Now the problem is that Win2k won't allow me to modify the drive letter back to C because it is the boot and system partition. Are there any workarounds to this? I could probably add a drive, assign it C: remotely through computer management and then copy the contents of F: to C: while booted from another disk and OS. I am hoping there is a better way though. Tim McKim Network Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:38 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Re-appearing Win2k logon screen Look at the eventlog remotely... ASB http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of McKim, Tim Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:26 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Re-appearing Win2k logon screen I have a Win2k Professional box with two hard drives. We needed to backup a drive from another computer so the second drive was removed from this machine and replaced with the drive from the other computer. We booted the machine and backed up the files. We then removed that drive and put the original drive back into the box. Upon reboot with the original drives the Win2k Pro box came back up to the logon screen. The tech who uses this machine logged on, it showed the usual screens about applying security policy etc. ,the welcome to windows music played and a few seconds later we got another logon screen. We repeated this several times with the same result. Here is what we have tried so far: Boot into Win2k safe mode. - We logged in and got a warning about the virtual memory size and upon hitting ok we were rewarded with another logon screen. Boot into Win2k safe mode command prompt. - We got another logon screen about a minute after logging on. Booted from Win2k CD repair -> recovery console. - When we selected the C:\WINNT directory we got an immediate reboot of the machine. Booted from Win2k CD repair -> Repair installation. Replaced all changed files. Again, the same cycle of logging in and then receiving another logon screen. Any Ideas? Tim ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
