2K logs off as soon as I log in

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Joe Mahma

Had a power outage yesterday, and my machines all rebooted for the
first time in a few weeks. When my 2kPro box came up, I could log in,
but before the shell would load, it would start the log off process
(saving your settings...) and return me to the logon screen. It does
that with every account, in every mode (safe,safe/CLI), with new
accounts, with old profiles renamed.

I can access it fine with regedit and compmgmt.msc from another
computer on the network. All the network shares work. Nothing looks
out of place in the registry for startup apps and services. No wierd
services are installed.

This machine had the backdoor.sinit virus, and had not been rebooted
since I followed Symantec's directions for manual removal of that
virus. So perhaps it was something I did, or so I thought. About 6
hours after noticing this problem on machine A, machine B, which I'd
been using to connect to A, had Exlorer crash. I tried to restart it
from taskmgr.exe, but the shell wouldn't load, just a file-manger type
folder view defaulting to My Documents. When I rebooted machine B, I
couldn't log in. Same issue as Machine A. Machine B is 2KServer.

These symptoms sound like any virus that is known?


- Joe
 
Joe,

Sounds like the drive letter for the boot partition changed. Reference the
following article to resolve the issue:

249321 Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249321

Jeff Patterson
Microsoft Support

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go for the obvious questions:

1) do you have a recent system restore point?
2) can you reimage the drive and stay relatively recent?

also - have you tried logging in with a new user (i.e. a user without
a stored profile on the machine)?
 
(e-mail address removed) (puzling) wrote in
go for the obvious questions:

1) do you have a recent system restore point?
Click to expand...

No. Thi sis my home workstation, and I don't run backups, only mirror data
and keep important things in multiple time-zones.
2) can you reimage the drive and stay relatively recent?
Click to expand...

Lacking an image, no.
also - have you tried logging in with a new user (i.e. a user without
a stored profile on the machine)?
Click to expand...


Yes. No luck.


RE: Drive letter change

I thought this at first, too. It actualy happened to this machine after I
installed XP, as XP changed the letters for some reason. However, I'd not
booted into Xp in quite some time, and Drive Manager showed the drives
lettered as they should be. I'll verify that the letters will point to the
right partitions, but they appeared to be OK at first glance.

Thanks for the input, guys. I'll keep ya posted on any progress I make.
 
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