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Tom Smith
Windows 2000 Pro SP3 - up to date patches. I used Syskey
to encrypt my SAM and entered my own password. Tried
rebooting and could not get it to logon (wrong password I
guess, kept rebooting - at syskey startup prompt). Now I
don't even get the password prompt. I get a lsass.exe -
System error. Sam database could not be initialized.
Tried ERD, no change. Can't get into emergency console
because it wants an admin password which can't be read
from the SAM. I could use NTFS for Dos to get in, but
what could I do to rebuild the SAM?
Any help would be greatly apprecaited.
Tom Smith
to encrypt my SAM and entered my own password. Tried
rebooting and could not get it to logon (wrong password I
guess, kept rebooting - at syskey startup prompt). Now I
don't even get the password prompt. I get a lsass.exe -
System error. Sam database could not be initialized.
Tried ERD, no change. Can't get into emergency console
because it wants an admin password which can't be read
from the SAM. I could use NTFS for Dos to get in, but
what could I do to rebuild the SAM?
Any help would be greatly apprecaited.
Tom Smith