Cannot log in

[ButtNut]

Please Help if you can,

we have a win2k sp4 750mb ram 40G hdd adv srvr [work group not a DC] that
was running well until yesterday. did a software update that required a
reboot and now we cannot log in. we get a message profile cannot be created
and that we can only log in locally, log in process starts then closes and
end up back at the log in window.
Also the system wll now not boot from the
CDROM drive even after making sure the bios is set correctly. because of
this we can't use the winternals ERD or the EBCD recovery tools to get in.
We placed the disk in another machine and at least we copied most of the
data off. The profile dir is still ther with the ntuser ini and dat files
too.
But it would sure suck to have to re-intsall the OS and ALL of the
programs.
Any suggestions?
Please post answers here.
Thank you

 

[Dave Patrick]

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:
| Please Help if you can,
|
| we have a win2k sp4 750mb ram 40G hdd adv srvr [work group not a DC] that
| was running well until yesterday. did a software update that required a
| reboot and now we cannot log in. we get a message profile cannot be
created
| and that we can only log in locally, log in process starts then closes and
| end up back at the log in window.
| Also the system wll now not boot from the
| CDROM drive even after making sure the bios is set correctly. because of
| this we can't use the winternals ERD or the EBCD recovery tools to get in.
| We placed the disk in another machine and at least we copied most of the
| data off. The profile dir is still ther with the ntuser ini and dat files
| too.
| But it would sure suck to have to re-intsall the OS and ALL of the
| programs.
| Any suggestions?
| Please post answers here.
| Thank you
|
|

 

[Buttnuts]

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