login prob in 2003 server

[prawinready]

hi all
i have a p3 sytem with 98 and xp pro and 2003 server on C ,D,E partitions respectively and F patition for software songs games etc, to increase the size of my xp paritition i uses partition magic 8 and and incresed the size of partitions in order to have more free space on my 40 gb HDD , after doin this i got this problem 98 and xp are working fine but in 2003 server after entering user name and password the system logs in and logsout immediately so im at login screen all the way , wat could be the problem and i how do i overcome this ?

thanks in advance

- prawin reddy

 

[FlyingPenguin]

2003 partition may have been corrupted during the parition resizing. It's rare but it happens. You can try running a scandisk on the server's partition from WinXP.

Have you tried booting into the server in Safe Mode?

You may need to do a repair install or a complete re-install of Server 2003.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: prawinready
hi all
i have a p3 sytem with 98 and xp pro and 2003 server on C ,D,E partitions respectively and F patition for software songs games etc, to increase the size of my xp paritition i uses partition magic 8 and and incresed the size of partitions in order to have more free space on my 40 gb HDD , after doin this i got this problem 98 and xp are working fine but in 2003 server after entering user name and password the system logs in and logsout immediately so im at login screen all the way , wat could be the problem and i how do i overcome this ?

thanks in advance

- prawin reddy

Ah, good old partition havoc.

This is an easy one dude. You shifted your drive letters in Windows 2003. Winlogon is trying to spawn system32\userinit.exe and it's looking in the wrong drive for it. Head over to support.microsoft.com and query on the following keywords:

mounteddevices userinit winlogon

You should hit a KB article on the first page that gets you fixed. It might be a 2000 or XP article though.

edit:
If you're on a network, a quick way to get you past this problem is connect to your 2003 registry remotely. Find the "Userinit" value in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Change it so it says just "userinit.exe," with no path in front of it (keep the comma).

Once done you'll be able to logon. This fixes your logon symptom, but not the original problem. Go do that query I mentioned above next.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: prawinready
hi all
i have a p3 sytem with 98 and xp pro and 2003 server on C ,D,E partitions respectively and F patition for software songs games etc, to increase the size of my xp paritition i uses partition magic 8 and and incresed the size of partitions in order to have more free space on my 40 gb HDD , after doin this i got this problem 98 and xp are working fine but in 2003 server after entering user name and password the system logs in and logsout immediately so im at login screen all the way , wat could be the problem and i how do i overcome this ?

thanks in advance

- prawin reddy

Ah, good old partition havoc.

This is an easy one dude. You shifted your drive letters in Windows 2003. Winlogon is trying to spawn system32\userinit.exe and it's looking in the wrong drive for it. Head over to support.microsoft.com and query on the following keywords:

mounteddevices userinit winlogon

You should hit a KB article on the first page that gets you fixed. It might be a 2000 or XP article though.

edit:
If you're on a network, a quick way to get you past this problem is connect to your 2003 registry remotely. Find the "Userinit" value in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Change it so it says just "userinit.exe," with no path in front of it (keep the comma).

Once done you'll be able to logon. This fixes your logon symptom, but not the original problem. Go do that query I mentioned above next.

And since you've got XP Pro on there already, just boot into XP Pro and use regedt32 to make the changes Smilin mentioned.