Win2000 boot message

From: Hermione (Hermione_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/24/05 

Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 08:31:04 -0700

My W2000 machine crashed this am. On re-boot I get the following error:
LSASS.EXE - System Error - Security accounts manager initialization failed
because of the following error: the security id structure is invalid. Error
status
0xc0000078. Please click OK to shutdown this system and reboot into
safemode, check the event log for more detailed information.

Rebooting via PF8 into safe mode generates the same error. I am unable to
get back into the system.

The machine is not a Domain controller and no recent changes have been made
to the machine configuration.

How do I get back in to the machine?

How do I repair the security id structure?

Thanks and please help

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