windows 2000 pro error

[Ricardo]

My win2k professional will not restart upon reboot it gives me the following
error, which I cannot find in the knowledge base. Lsass.exe-System error
Security Accounts Manager initialization fialed because of the following
error: The handle is invalid. error status 0xc0000008. Please click shutdown
and reboot into safe modecheck the event log for details. You cannot boot
into safe mode without the same error, last know good configuration does not
work. I have tried doing a windows repair, and a reinstall waiting till the
second screen where it finds the installation and tries to repair it. It
always boots to the same error. I suspected the sasser virus so booted with
winternals erd commander and mapped the system as a network drive to another
system then scanned the drive with a virus scanner and no virus's just some
spyware but nothing earth shattering, ( or computer shatttering) In
winternals I can see the drive and directory structure is fine and have run
a diskchk it is not corrupt. I also tried using NTaccess a program that
changes the admin password in case it had been changed and that was causing
the problem but it says it cannot find the file. Sounds like whatever
controls the passwords is gone or screwed. Anyone have any sugestions?
Short of a parallel installation of windows and just retrieve the data I'm
out of idea's.

Thanks

Rich H

 

[Dodo]

Ricardo wrote on 23 mrt 2006:

My win2k professional will not restart upon reboot it gives me the
following error, which I cannot find in the knowledge base.
Lsass.exe-System error Security Accounts Manager initialization fialed
because of the following error: The handle is invalid. error status
0xc0000008. Please click shutdown and reboot into safe modecheck the
event log for details. You cannot boot into safe mode without the same
error, last know good configuration does not work. I have tried doing
a windows repair, and a reinstall waiting till the second screen
where it finds the installation and tries to repair it. It always
boots to the same error. I suspected the sasser virus so booted with
winternals erd commander and mapped the system as a network drive to
another system then scanned the drive with a virus scanner and no
virus's just some spyware but nothing earth shattering, ( or computer
shatttering) In winternals I can see the drive and directory structure
is fine and have run a diskchk it is not corrupt. I also tried using
NTaccess a program that changes the admin password in case it had been
changed and that was causing the problem but it says it cannot find
the file. Sounds like whatever controls the passwords is gone or
screwed. Anyone have any sugestions? Short of a parallel installation
of windows and just retrieve the data I'm out of idea's.

Have you tried to rename your system hive and replace it with system.alt?

Do this when booted from a CD or floppy with access to your HDD.

Look in C:\WINNT\system32\config for these files.