Re: Security Account Manager Initializatioin Failed

From: Nick (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:27:34 -0800

This worked. I have a feeling the HD is going bad.
Originally I just tried resotring to a different HD, that
was bigger than the original. But that doesn't work to
well with GHOST.

On our server we had a similar problem, got NTLDR missing
and ntoskrnl.exe missing errors. Even after booting to
the recovery console and re-copying the files off of the
Windows CD. We are trying to upgrade the HDs in our
domain controller running Windows 2000 Server, and was
using Norton Ghost. I'm thinking about trying Power Quest
Drive image to see if it works any better.

Thanks,
Nick

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello Nick,
>
>This normally indicates that you have a corrupt sam or
registry file on this
>machine.
>
>Do you have a backup of this machine? If you have a
backup please restore
>from the backup.
>
>Thank You.
>
>Diana
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>"Nick" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:62b101c4012f$56be0180$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>
>> Security Account Manager Initializatioin Failed because
of
>> the following error: The security ID structure is
>> invalid. Error status 0xc0000078. Please click ok shut
>> down and reboot into safe mode, check the event log for
>> more detailed information.
>>
>> But, Windows 2000 won't get to a login promt either in
>> normal or safe mode. Also when going into recovery
consol
>> it doesn't prompt for the Administrator password.
>>
>> Please help.
>
>
>.
>

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