Hello,

I have just ghosted my windows XP Proffesional installation across to
another hard drive in the same computer, as I installed Linux on my
main drive.

Now when I go to log onto my Windows installation this is what happens:

1) Enter my username and password.
2) Windows starts to log me in (message flashes "Applying your
settings")
3) Goes in briefly for 2 seconds.
4) I get the message "Saving your settings and logging you off"

This happens even if I use the Administrator account.
This happens in SAFE MODE also.
I am unable to log on via the credentials of any security account.

Initially I thought that is was a SID problem so I did a "Ghost Walk"
and regenerated a new SID but this did not work.

Can I please have some pointers to help me out in what to do here now?

Thank you,
Jainesh Jogia.

Jainesh Jogia wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just ghosted my windows XP Proffesional installation across to
> another hard drive in the same computer, as I installed Linux on my
> main drive.
>
> Now when I go to log onto my Windows installation this is what
> happens:
>
> 1) Enter my username and password.
> 2) Windows starts to log me in (message flashes "Applying your
> settings")
> 3) Goes in briefly for 2 seconds.
> 4) I get the message "Saving your settings and logging you off"
>
> This happens even if I use the Administrator account.
> This happens in SAFE MODE also.
> I am unable to log on via the credentials of any security account.
>
> Initially I thought that is was a SID problem so I did a "Ghost Walk"
> and regenerated a new SID but this did not work.
>
> Can I please have some pointers to help me out in what to do here now?

You used to have Windows on C: (MS drive terminology) and now it is on
something like D:? If this is the case, you've got hundreds (if not
thousands) of entries in the registry pointing to things on C:.
Ghosting is for when you are putting the image on the exact same
hardware which also means in the exact same place (drive C: in your
case).

Do a Repair Install of Windows and then you'll need to repair Grub or
LILO if you installed the Linux bootloader in the MBR.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Malke
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