I recently had a hard disk failure. I was able to recover from a backup,
but was unable to login. When tried to login, I was immediately logged
off, and returned to a login prompt. I repaired the install with a
slpistreamed SP3 install disk. Now the I login, I get a message that says I
need to activate. When I click to activate, I'm logged off. HELP!

John wrote:
> I recently had a hard disk failure. I was able to recover from a
> backup, but was unable to login. When tried to login, I was
> immediately logged off, and returned to a login prompt. I repaired
> the install with a slpistreamed SP3 install disk. Now the I login,
> I get a message that says I need to activate. When I click to
> activate, I'm logged off. HELP!

Sounds like you did not fix anything and may still be infested/infected with
whatever originally caused the issue.

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I booted from a CD, and scanned the system and found nothing. Any idea what
to do next?
"Shenan Stanley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> John wrote:
>> I recently had a hard disk failure. I was able to recover from a
>> backup, but was unable to login. When tried to login, I was
>> immediately logged off, and returned to a login prompt. I repaired
>> the install with a slpistreamed SP3 install disk. Now the I login,
>> I get a message that says I need to activate. When I click to
>> activate, I'm logged off. HELP!
>
> Sounds like you did not fix anything and may still be infested/infected
> with whatever originally caused the issue.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

I worked it out. When I reloaded the bachine, the boot disk became F:
instead of C:. The usrinnit key in the registry was looking for the
usrinit.exe on the C drive which didn't exist.
"Shenan Stanley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> John wrote:
>> I recently had a hard disk failure. I was able to recover from a
>> backup, but was unable to login. When tried to login, I was
>> immediately logged off, and returned to a login prompt. I repaired
>> the install with a slpistreamed SP3 install disk. Now the I login,
>> I get a message that says I need to activate. When I click to
>> activate, I'm logged off. HELP!
>
> Sounds like you did not fix anything and may still be infested/infected
> with whatever originally caused the issue.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>