Looping login?

[Patrick Hunter]

I have a machine with an odd issue. When the user goes
to login, it authenticates and then almost immediately,
does the shutdown or logout messages (Closing network
connections, etc.) and dumps back to the login screen. It
does this in Safe Mode as well. Does not matter which
user logs in. I've run a repair on it to no avail.
Microsoft's support database does not seem to have
anything to match these symptoms. Has anybody else seen
this and might have an idea, or does it sound like I am
stuck reinstalling? The machine is running SP2 with just
the standard windows login. TIA

Patrick

 

[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

This happens sometimes if drive letters have changed.

Boot into recovery console, try backing up your system hive (in
winnt\system32\config) and the system hive (from the repair folder), then
using regedt32 to edit the original system hive file and delete the
"MountedDevices" key.

Reboot into recovery console, swapping the system hive back and see if your
problem still happens.

Read the following articles carefully:

249321 Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249321

223188 HOW TO: Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=223188

And yeah, if those don't work, the flatten and rebuild your machine. Let us
know if it works

HTH,
Daniel

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