Login Screen Looping

[Daneil]

I have a windows 2000 pro. machine running Service pack 3
that loops at the login screen. I try to logon with the
local admin account (and any other account) and it says
loading personal setting, then it says saveing settings,
then im back to the login screen again.

I have treid this:

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Things may seem grim if if your login screen is stuck in
a loop. That is to say that the login prompt keeps
reappearing and you cannot log in to Windows 2000. Don't
start thinking about rebuilding the machine -- dust off
your old Windows 9x disk.

Boot the computer from the Windows 2000 CD.

Select the 'Repair' option.

Select 'Recovery Console'.

Log in as the administrator.

From the Recovery Console, type: 'FIXMBR'.

Remove the Windows 2000 CD from the CD drive and reboot
the computer from a Windows 9x boot diskette.

At the command line, run 'FDISK /MBR'.

Remove the Windows 9x boot diskette and reboot the
computer to Windows 2000.
The login process should now be successful.
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But it did not solve the problem

 

[Marcelo]

The problem appers to be in the users profiles or in the Group Policies /
Local Security Policies settings. It appers to me that you do logon but a
command runs in the logon process that logs you off. Try to access the pc
over the network to see the registry and the users profiles.

 

[Kevin McNiel [MSFT]]

One thing that will cause this behavior is if the drive letter of the system
drive changes. Take a look at Knowledge Base article 249321 Unable to Log on
if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
(http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249321) for some possible resolutions
depending on your computing environment.

Kevin McNiel, MCSE/MCSA
Platform Server Setup Group

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