Copying system to another HDD - strange logon-logoff rebuff

[Aleksey Tkachenko]

Hi!

I have this configuration on the notebook:

Partition Basic FAT Healthy (EISA Configuration) 16MB - Don't know what is it
(C Partition Basic NTFS Healthy (System) 12.00 GB - WXP Home edition
( D - ODD )
(E Partition Basic NTFS Healthy (Boot) 55.39 GB - WXP Professional edition

Copied all this to another HDD, including MBR.

Results:

WXP Home edition - works normally, sees the disk E normally

WXP Professional edition - loads itself, shows the logon dialog, accepts the password, then

"loading user settings" - and immediate logoff ( it plays logon and logoff music with small pause )

****************** What is it????? *********************


Aleksey.

 

[Aleksey Tkachenko]

So if you copied your old partitions into new HDD, installed it,
but the WXP logoffs immediately after logon, try to do this:

put your new HDD into USB box, attach to the computer loaded from old HDD
Assign some letters to the partitions at new HDD if they have not them yet
( Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative tools->Computer management->Disk management )

Say L: is the drive of the WXP at new new HDD when it is attached by USB

Make copy of L:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system ( this is file and it has not extension )

Run cmd window ( that black one )
reg load hklm\sxbg L:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system>nul

Start regedit
analyse the DosDevices\X: items
in the HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices of old WXP and
in the HKLM\sxbg.
At this moment this items are already different.
The items in the HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices are right and
represent the current configuration (both disks and the new is second ),
so you have all necessary data to
make the necessary changes in the hklm\sxbg to properly represent the disks,
which will be in the new configuration ( only new disk? )
There also will be the items of your ODDs - they have more long binary data.
Possibly it will be enough only to rename some items in the HKLM\sxbg.

Close regedit

reg save hklm\sxbg L:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system_new
reg unload hklm\sxbg
Close cmd window of reg ( that black one )

Delete L:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system
Rename
L:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system_new to
L:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system

Shut down.
replace the old HDD by new one
press power button