Please help me,
2 days ago I shut down my PC standalone server 2000 as usual.
The next day, my PC hangs forever after the password and Logon box at "loading your personal settings".
Unfortunately, there's no other account for any other user (only administrator account with a blank password. It is a quite fresh installation of Win Server 2000 and didn't managed yet to create other accounts in this server). This machine is a standalone server (NO DNS, NO Active Directory, NO Domain ).
I tried to reboot in Safe mode, Last known Good config and all other options in F8 startup menu, but no way to log on. Same symptom: Hangs forever. I'm sure it's not a virus, because I scanned the hard disk some hours before this trouble.
I'd like to know if it is possible to avoid to reinstall again Windows server 2000 (I mean is it possible to track what is blocking the logon process at startup ? is there a mean to detect which service fails to start)
Is it possible to access the NT registry, if I extract the hard disk and put it as a slave disk in another Win 2k server ? If yes what hive in the registry should I Load to modify?
Thank you for any suggestions. (Avoid a full reinstall is my goal)
(Unfortunately I have no other account except administrator one)
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