can't finish logon process completely

[Johnny Chow]

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer. That is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I logon
with the new user id. I used Windows CD boot disk to go to command
prompt. I used "diskpart" then it does not give the same option so I can
change assign drive letter under Windows XP environment (normal boot). I
used partition manager to make user system partition is the active boot
partition. I still can't logon completely due to assign letter got change.
How should I change it back to c: as system partition? Any tips will be
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

JC

 

[WTC]

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer. That is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry. There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect to the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if you need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot by a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry to make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003 machine
to perform these steps.

 

[John Chow]

Wow, this is open eyes solution and I will try it out tomorrow and keep you
post.

Thanks again,

JC

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer. That is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry.
There are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect
to the problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if
you need information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot
by a networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry to
make the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003
machine to perform these steps.

 

[Guest]

Sounds good, nice easy details and a bonus gold star for understanding Chows
orphaned message.
I have a problem logging on as my boot screen shows the windows XP black
screen loading.... .... .... then the blue logon screen but no polite message
saying "please wait while windows loads" (whereafter the User Accounts would
show up).

I cloned my drive C:<backup> to M:<Max> with Norton Ghost 9 forgetting I
labeled drive M; previously. I didn't think this would be an issue as the
MBR would be written over anyway? Is this a WPA thing or a bad clone or
should I follow chows path?
thanks.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer. That is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry. There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect to the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if you need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot by a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry to make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003 machine
to perform these steps.

 

[WTC]

Try the directions I supplied to John. If my method does not work for you
then reclone the drive as per Norton Ghost's directions.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Sounds good, nice easy details and a bonus gold star for understanding
Chows
orphaned message.
I have a problem logging on as my boot screen shows the windows XP black
screen loading.... .... .... then the blue logon screen but no polite
message
saying "please wait while windows loads" (whereafter the User Accounts
would
show up).

I cloned my drive C:<backup> to M:<Max> with Norton Ghost 9 forgetting I
labeled drive M; previously. I didn't think this would be an issue as the
MBR would be written over anyway? Is this a WPA thing or a bad clone or
should I follow chows path?
thanks.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer. That
is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I
logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry.
There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect to
the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if you
need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot by a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry to
make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003
machine
to perform these steps.

 

[Johnny Chow]

Hi William,
It worked like magic. I removed those registry value per your instruction,
disconnect and reboot. Everything is working.

Thanks a million,

JC

Wow, this is open eyes solution and I will try it out tomorrow and keep
you post.

Thanks again,

JC

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer. That
is why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry.
There are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect
to the problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if
you need information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot
by a networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry to
make the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003
machine to perform these steps.

 

[WTC]

You're welcome Johnny.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Hi William,
It worked like magic. I removed those registry value per your
instruction, disconnect and reboot. Everything is working.

Thanks a million,

JC

Wow, this is open eyes solution and I will try it out tomorrow and keep
you post.

Thanks again,

JC

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer. That
is why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I
logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry.
There are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot
connect to the problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me
know if you need information on how to gain access to the Registry if
you cannot by a networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry to
make the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003
machine to perform these steps.

 

[Guest]

thanks wtc,
1 question though:
I load F:\windows\system32/system into regedit from C:\ , after I tinker
with it and choose "unload" this will cause no changes to C:\ drive registry
right? Ive never done this before in regedit.

--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

Try the directions I supplied to John. If my method does not work for you
then reclone the drive as per Norton Ghost's directions.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Sounds good, nice easy details and a bonus gold star for understanding
Chows
orphaned message.
I have a problem logging on as my boot screen shows the windows XP black
screen loading.... .... .... then the blue logon screen but no polite
message
saying "please wait while windows loads" (whereafter the User Accounts
would
show up).

I cloned my drive C:<backup> to M:<Max> with Norton Ghost 9 forgetting I
labeled drive M; previously. I didn't think this would be an issue as the
MBR would be written over anyway? Is this a WPA thing or a bad clone or
should I follow chows path?
thanks.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer. That
is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I
logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry.
There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect to
the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if you
need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot by a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry to
make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003
machine
to perform these steps.

 

[WTC]

No changes will be done to the active system registry IF you are making the
edits to the loaded hive from the F drive. Just make sure you are working
with the loaded hive.

Good Luck.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

thanks wtc,
1 question though:
I load F:\windows\system32/system into regedit from C:\ , after I tinker
with it and choose "unload" this will cause no changes to C:\ drive
registry
right? Ive never done this before in regedit.

--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

Try the directions I supplied to John. If my method does not work for you
then reclone the drive as per Norton Ghost's directions.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Sounds good, nice easy details and a bonus gold star for understanding
Chows
orphaned message.
I have a problem logging on as my boot screen shows the windows XP
black
screen loading.... .... .... then the blue logon screen but no polite
message
saying "please wait while windows loads" (whereafter the User Accounts
would
show up).

I cloned my drive C:<backup> to M:<Max> with Norton Ghost 9 forgetting
I
labeled drive M; previously. I didn't think this would be an issue as
the
MBR would be written over anyway? Is this a WPA thing or a bad clone
or
should I follow chows path?
thanks.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


:

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out
the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer.
That
is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I
logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry.
There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect to
the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if you
need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot by a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry
to
make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows
CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003
machine
to perform these steps.

 

[Guest]

Thanks again WTC.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

No changes will be done to the active system registry IF you are making the
edits to the loaded hive from the F drive. Just make sure you are working
with the loaded hive.

Good Luck.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

thanks wtc,
1 question though:
I load F:\windows\system32/system into regedit from C:\ , after I tinker
with it and choose "unload" this will cause no changes to C:\ drive
registry
right? Ive never done this before in regedit.

--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

Try the directions I supplied to John. If my method does not work for you
then reclone the drive as per Norton Ghost's directions.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Sounds good, nice easy details and a bonus gold star for understanding
Chows
orphaned message.
I have a problem logging on as my boot screen shows the windows XP
black
screen loading.... .... .... then the blue logon screen but no polite
message
saying "please wait while windows loads" (whereafter the User Accounts
would
show up).

I cloned my drive C:<backup> to M:<Max> with Norton Ghost 9 forgetting
I
labeled drive M; previously. I didn't think this would be an issue as
the
MBR would be written over anyway? Is this a WPA thing or a bad clone
or
should I follow chows path?
thanks.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


:

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found out
the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer.
That
is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even I
logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the registry.
There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect to
the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if you
need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot by a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the Registry
to
make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows
CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type "regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows XP/2003
machine
to perform these steps.

 

[WTC]

You're welcome Brandon.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Thanks again WTC.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

No changes will be done to the active system registry IF you are making
the
edits to the loaded hive from the F drive. Just make sure you are working
with the loaded hive.

Good Luck.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

thanks wtc,
1 question though:
I load F:\windows\system32/system into regedit from C:\ , after I
tinker
with it and choose "unload" this will cause no changes to C:\ drive
registry
right? Ive never done this before in regedit.

--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


:

Try the directions I supplied to John. If my method does not work for
you
then reclone the drive as per Norton Ghost's directions.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Sounds good, nice easy details and a bonus gold star for
understanding
Chows
orphaned message.
I have a problem logging on as my boot screen shows the windows XP
black
screen loading.... .... .... then the blue logon screen but no
polite
message
saying "please wait while windows loads" (whereafter the User
Accounts
would
show up).

I cloned my drive C:<backup> to M:<Max> with Norton Ghost 9
forgetting
I
labeled drive M; previously. I didn't think this would be an issue
as
the
MBR would be written over anyway? Is this a WPA thing or a bad
clone
or
should I follow chows path?
thanks.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


:

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found
out
the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer.
That
is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even
I
logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a
networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine
and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the
registry.
There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect
to
the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if
you
need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot by
a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the
Registry
to
make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows
CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type
"regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows
XP/2003
machine
to perform these steps.

 

[Guest]

It worked for me too! Thanks.

My 'to do' list is one eighth of a mile shorter.

So simple
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

You're welcome Brandon.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Thanks again WTC.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

No changes will be done to the active system registry IF you are making
the
edits to the loaded hive from the F drive. Just make sure you are working
with the loaded hive.

Good Luck.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

thanks wtc,
1 question though:
I load F:\windows\system32/system into regedit from C:\ , after I
tinker
with it and choose "unload" this will cause no changes to C:\ drive
registry
right? Ive never done this before in regedit.

--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


:

Try the directions I supplied to John. If my method does not work for
you
then reclone the drive as per Norton Ghost's directions.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Sounds good, nice easy details and a bonus gold star for
understanding
Chows
orphaned message.
I have a problem logging on as my boot screen shows the windows XP
black
screen loading.... .... .... then the blue logon screen but no
polite
message
saying "please wait while windows loads" (whereafter the User
Accounts
would
show up).

I cloned my drive C:<backup> to M:<Max> with Norton Ghost 9
forgetting
I
labeled drive M; previously. I didn't think this would be an issue
as
the
MBR would be written over anyway? Is this a WPA thing or a bad
clone
or
should I follow chows path?
thanks.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


:

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I found
out
the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any longer.
That
is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen even
I
logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a
networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic machine
and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the
registry.
There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot connect
to
the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know if
you
need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot by
a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the
Registry
to
make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows
CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type
"regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows
XP/2003
machine
to perform these steps.

 

[WTC]

You're welcome.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

It worked for me too! Thanks.

My 'to do' list is one eighth of a mile shorter.

So simple
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

You're welcome Brandon.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Thanks again WTC.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


:

No changes will be done to the active system registry IF you are
making
the
edits to the loaded hive from the F drive. Just make sure you are
working
with the loaded hive.

Good Luck.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

thanks wtc,
1 question though:
I load F:\windows\system32/system into regedit from C:\ , after I
tinker
with it and choose "unload" this will cause no changes to C:\ drive
registry
right? Ive never done this before in regedit.

--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


:

Try the directions I supplied to John. If my method does not work
for
you
then reclone the drive as per Norton Ghost's directions.

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Sounds good, nice easy details and a bonus gold star for
understanding
Chows
orphaned message.
I have a problem logging on as my boot screen shows the windows
XP
black
screen loading.... .... .... then the blue logon screen but no
polite
message
saying "please wait while windows loads" (whereafter the User
Accounts
would
show up).

I cloned my drive C:<backup> to M:<Max> with Norton Ghost 9
forgetting
I
labeled drive M; previously. I didn't think this would be an
issue
as
the
MBR would be written over anyway? Is this a WPA thing or a bad
clone
or
should I follow chows path?
thanks.
--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''


:

Hi,
I found the problem. I use \\xxx\c$ and \\xxx\d$ and I
found
out
the
system partition was changed from C: to D: and no C: any
longer.
That
is
why
the user logon goes half way and comes out to logon screen
even
I
logon
with the new user id.

The problem may be an incorrect system drive letter. With a
networked
machine, open the registry and connect to the problematic
machine
and
navigate to:

[MACHINE_NAME\HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

and delete all values that look like this:

\DosDevices\C
\DosDevices\D
\DosDevices\E
and so on

When finished, make sure you disconnect the machine from the
registry.
There
are other ways to gain access to the registry if you cannot
connect
to
the
problematic machine via networked Registry. Please let me know
if
you
need
information on how to gain access to the Registry if you cannot
by
a
networked registry.

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

I would suggest using this method if you cannot network the
Registry
to
make
the necessary edits.

This method will involve using BartPE Bootable CD.

1. Make a BartPE Bootable CD
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live
windows
CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Follow the directions on their webpage to create this
CD/DVD.

2. Boot the Computer with the BartPE CD/DVD.

3. Open the Run dialog box from the Start Menu and type
"regedit.exe"
without the quotes.

4. Highlight the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" hive.

5. From the File menu select "Load Hive".

6. Navigate to the following location on your hard drive.

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\config"

and select the file "SYSTEM". (Has no file extension)

7. Name the Hive "MyPC".

8. Navigate to this location in the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC\MountedDevices]

9. Delete all values that look like this:

DosDevices\C
DosDevices\D
DosDevices\E
and so on

10. Highlight this registration key

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MyPC]

11. From the File menu select "Unload Hive"

12. Reboot and remove BartPE CD/DVD.

13. Try logging into Windows.

NOTE: You could also slave the hard drive to another Windows
XP/2003
machine
to perform these steps.