Broken Laptop (Unable To Login)
Problem with my laptop fixed.
First I had to edit the userinit line per KB Q249321 using the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, then I logged in, got a blank screen, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, fired up Task Manager, used that to launch regedt32, followed 223188 to change the boot volume back to C:, rebooted, and all was good.
The problem was caused by C: somehow changing to E: (WTF?). Yeah, I’ve got no idea how, but the problem is solved.
The error which was received is as follows:
Your system has no paging file or the paging file is too small.
This was received on my Windows XP SP2 laptop after logging into the machine with any username, then the machine would slowly return to the login screen. If one tried to log in via safe mode, they would immediately be returned to the login window.
Well, hopefully this will help someone somewhere down the line…
Something like that happened to me before, though not like that. I have an external hard drive and when I plugged in my jump drive, my E drive became an F drive and the jump drive became E. It was frustrating because I had to replace all of the music in my iTunes.
Through the Disk Management MMC you can change drive letters around on all volumes except the boot/root volume. You could have just re-shuffled the drive letters there and been all set. :)