Group Policy security and system shut down!

[Lisa]

Hello,

My hard drive failed yesterday. I got a message on the startup screen saying
to back it up and replace it. I purchased a new drive and I backed up the
old one today. I used Acronis True Image. I got some errors during backup
and I had to reset the Admin and user passwords because Windows did not
recognize the old passwords. I used a program called "Offline NT Password &
Registry Editor".

When going into users accounts to create new passwords for Admin and users I
get a shutdown error, the error window states;

==================================
"This shutdown was initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
System will shut down in 60 secs.
C:\WINDOWSystem32\Isses.exe terminated unexpectedly..."
"with code -1073741819" (on most instances)
"with code -1 (on other instances)"
=====================================

When I try to reset the passwords through Local policies I receive a little
massage, "The settings that apply to this machine could not be determined.
The error returned when trying to receive these settings from the local
security policy database (%windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb) was: The
parameter is incorrect. All local security settings will be displayed, but
no indication will be given as to whether or not a give security setting is
defined by Group Policy. Any local security settings modified through this
user Interface may subsequently be overwritten by domain -level policies."
Can this be fixed? Any help is greatly appreciated

Thank you.

P.S. I am running Windows Media Center 2005.

 

[CSM1]

Hello,

My hard drive failed yesterday. I got a message on the startup screen
saying to back it up and replace it. I purchased a new drive and I backed
up the old one today. I used Acronis True Image. I got some errors during
backup and I had to reset the Admin and user passwords because Windows did
not recognize the old passwords. I used a program called "Offline NT
Password & Registry Editor".

When going into users accounts to create new passwords for Admin and users
I get a shutdown error, the error window states;

==================================
"This shutdown was initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
System will shut down in 60 secs.
C:\WINDOWSystem32\Isses.exe terminated unexpectedly..."
"with code -1073741819" (on most instances)
"with code -1 (on other instances)"
=====================================

When I try to reset the passwords through Local policies I receive a
little massage, "The settings that apply to this machine could not be
determined. The error returned when trying to receive these settings from
the local security policy database
(%windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb) was: The parameter is incorrect.
All local security settings will be displayed, but no indication will be
given as to whether or not a give security setting is defined by Group
Policy. Any local security settings modified through this user Interface
may subsequently be overwritten by domain -level policies."
Can this be fixed? Any help is greatly appreciated

Thank you.

P.S. I am running Windows Media Center 2005.

Since you used Acronis True Image to do your backup, you can do a clean
install of the Windows Media Center 2005 from the OEM disks.

True Image has the ability to extract individual files and folders from the
image.
You can then restore just the backuped Data.

With a failing drive, much of the OS is in bad shape, so a Clean install
should be done.
Maybe you will be lucky and get your data back.

True Image only captures what is present, and can not fix an already broken
drive.

 

[Lisa]

Thanks, but the problem is that I don't have the actual windows CD, I have
the HP restore disk and I really don't want to go through this now.

The OS seems to be stable, everything works fine, only problem is the
security stuff. I'd like to fix that if I can.

 

[Lisa]

Anyone, please.

 

[Lisa]

I really need some help here, hope someone can take a look at this and help
me out. Can I call someone and pay for help regarding this problem? Thanks
again.