Logon Message error when logging on to local (non-AD) machine

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E-Double

A Win 2000 Pro/sp4 machine cannot be logged on to, either in safe mode or
normal boot, as the following message (or something to this effect) appears-
"Logon Message: You cannot logon to the machine now because the domain xxx is
not available." This particular machine is not and has never been part of a
domain. Running a Repair from the Win2000 Install CD did not fix the
problem, nor did trying to reset the Admin password with a boot utility.
Ideally we would like to salvage this Win2000 install and not have to do a
complete reinstall of the OS. Any help on this one would be greatly
appreciated. TIA ...
 
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E-Double

p.s. There are only two boxes when logging on either in Safe mode or Regular
mode - the username and passord boxes, and there is not a third box for a
Domain or to logon locally (even after the Options button is pressed).
 
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p.p.s. Another post from a user that seemed to have the exact same problem
listed installing the drive as a D: drive in another machine and then using
the Load Remote Hive feature of regedt32 to edit the registry - but what
key(s) should be edited and what should the new values be? TIA ...
 
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E-Double

Perfect, this looks like it will work - thanks!

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Dave Patrick said:
This article may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824302


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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E-Double said:
A Win 2000 Pro/sp4 machine cannot be logged on to, either in safe mode or
normal boot, as the following message (or something to this effect)
appears-
"Logon Message: You cannot logon to the machine now because the domain xxx
is
not available." This particular machine is not and has never been part of
a
domain. Running a Repair from the Win2000 Install CD did not fix the
problem, nor did trying to reset the Admin password with a boot utility.
Ideally we would like to salvage this Win2000 install and not have to do a
complete reinstall of the OS. Any help on this one would be greatly
appreciated. TIA ...
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