this saved my bacon when i client raid got out of sync (sil 0680 dual ide to be exact)
and left me with two mirrored drives - booting up windows assigned c:\ to one of the drives and f:\ to the other
and marked one as active and the other as system
messing around with the raid controller somehow removed all the partitions on the c:\ volume
so i had to get the f:\ to boot - which it would but after logging in it would log me off
then i search for windows server 2003 logon logoff loop and found this (actually a pdf of this!) - which worked!!
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/2006-02/msg01237.html
Due to the various manipulations you performed, your system
drive letter is now something other than C:. The easiest solution
is probably to delete all current drive letter references and let
Windows re-assign them. Run regedit.exe and navigate to
HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices. Now delete all values
that look like this: \DosDevices\E: to DosDevices\X: where X:
can be any letter of the alphabet.
Since your machine is currently not accessible, you must edit
its registry via some networked PC.
Remember to reboot the problem PC after the registry edit.
and left me with two mirrored drives - booting up windows assigned c:\ to one of the drives and f:\ to the other
and marked one as active and the other as system
messing around with the raid controller somehow removed all the partitions on the c:\ volume
so i had to get the f:\ to boot - which it would but after logging in it would log me off
then i search for windows server 2003 logon logoff loop and found this (actually a pdf of this!) - which worked!!
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/2006-02/msg01237.html
Due to the various manipulations you performed, your system
drive letter is now something other than C:. The easiest solution
is probably to delete all current drive letter references and let
Windows re-assign them. Run regedit.exe and navigate to
HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices. Now delete all values
that look like this: \DosDevices\E: to DosDevices\X: where X:
can be any letter of the alphabet.
Since your machine is currently not accessible, you must edit
its registry via some networked PC.
Remember to reboot the problem PC after the registry edit.
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