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Windows NT help

Let me guess. NT's the problem? I don't have a choice. It's my work pc and there's no admin support at this hour.
 
It's a Toshiba Tecra 8200 with NT 4.0 Service pack 6. Set up for option of docked or undocked. Goes to the blue boot screen with the NT version info. Normally it would then go to the login screen. Instead it stays in the blue screen with the following:

STOP:c000021a {Fatal System Error}
The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000022 (0x00000000 0x00000000).
Restart and set the recovery options in the system control panel or the /CRASHDEBUG system start option.

I've tried docked, undocked, connected/unconnected to network, reseating RAM, booting with startup disk, and all options but get nowhere.

The only thing that changed was last time I was logged in (I have admin privliges) I assigned the C folders only access by me and took ownership of all. But I don't see how this would effect anything.
 
When I do that, before the screen that locks up, it goes through scans:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\system...
There are about 12 different endings to this string. It goes real fast so I've done it about 5 times to get that much.
 
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\system...
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AKA hardrive1, partition one, most likely:
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM\

so.. it seems you flucked up the permissions..

is the filesystem NTFS?
 
Originally posted by: Colt45
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\system...
Click to expand...

AKA hardrive1, partition one, most likely:
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM\

so.. it seems you flucked up the permissions..

is the filesystem NTFS?
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Yes, I changed the permissions yesterday (last time it was working). Yes it's NTFS. Anyway to correct this?

If it would be easier, we can do this in PM or by phone. Thanks for trying to help.
 
its been a while, so im not sure i can help.

since its NTFS, you cant write or read it with normal DOS.

there are some programs that let you read NTFS with dos, but how well it works.. im not sure..

sorry 🙁
 
Depending on how NT was installed, you will have various options... If you installed NT in FAT16 and converted to NTFS, you're pretty much screwed because your permissions will be scattered through your system. EDIT: Actually, they won't be 'scattered', but I believe it gives everyone pretty much the same rights...I'm more of a Novell guy. If it was installed with the recovery mode, you should be able to attempt to boot to the WindowsNT cd and try to recover your system that way (it's been a while since I did that). I did manage to find this site that has documentation on how to restore permissions if you get the system to a command prompt. You would have to use a general text editor and manually edit the registry to do so though....and remember that a space in the wrong place or caps can screw that up royally. Good luck.
 
Thanks Colt45. You've at least identified the most likely cause. I guessing the only fix will be to reload NT? That's 600 mgb of email gone, plus all kinds of valuable documents.
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
Depending on how NT was installed, you will have various options... If you installed NT in FAT16 and converted to NTFS, you're pretty much screwed because your permissions will be scattered through your system. EDIT: Actually, they won't be 'scattered', but I believe it gives everyone pretty much the same rights...I'm more of a Novell guy. If it was installed with the recovery mode, you should be able to attempt to boot to the WindowsNT cd and try to recover your system that way (it's been a while since I did that). I did manage to find this site that has documentation on how to restore permissions if you get the system to a command prompt. You would have to use a general text editor and manually edit the registry to do so though....and remember that a space in the wrong place or caps can screw that up royally. Good luck.
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Since I'm an admin on the machine and I set the permissions to only allow me access, I wouldn't think that would hurt. I also did the same thing on a Win2000 machine and it still works. If I had the NT disk I'd try your suggestion.

I know the machine was loaded with a ghost image. Don't know if it was FAT or recovery though.
 
It would be beneficial to get an NT4 CD and boot from it to see if you have the option to recover it or not. It's the best way to get back up and running, but if you still can't get it, continue to search for solutions if clients/users depend on it. If you don't have the NT4 cd and only an image, I hope you have a tape backup of it on DLT or something.... Once again, I wish you the best of luck.

-Ryan
 
Let me clarify. I'm the user with admin priviliges. I'm sure this really irritates admin guys but if I don't have admin priviliges, I can't run certain programs to do my job. I might have an NT SP4 disk. Would this conflict with my machine since it has SP6?
 
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