winlogon.exe corrupted....CrapFollow

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

You can download a bootdisk set from there, which should allow you to boot the computer. If you can find somewhere to download a copy of winlogon to a disk you could

copy

it to your SYSTEM32 folder.

I'm running Win2k, and I'm not sure that they're the same, though they could be.

Also, if you formatted your HD with the NTFS file system, you'll have to use the XP bootdisk set. If it's formatted as FAT then you can use the Win 9X bootdisks.

Make sure you set your BIOS to boot from floppy before you try to boot from the bootdisk ^^

If you're feeling lucky, my winlogon.exe is 178 KB, I can email it to you, but I can't guarantee that it will work.

doh!

I forgot to write that I'm running Win2k SP4. Which is why I had a concern over whether it would work or not.

Well...

To backtrack some then, have you attempted to boot using your windows XP cd? You should be able to get a recovery console by booting from your XP CD.

From there, I'm not 100% sure. I have very little experience with XP, but from what I understand XP is very similar to 2000, try running the recovery console through an automatic repair, and see if you can boot that way. If you can, then I would copy winlogon.exe to your HD from the CD.

If you still can't get into the computer, post back and I'll have to think some more.

Well, you only need 3 files to actually boot the computer:

 
ntldr 
NTDETECT 
boot.ini 

Copying those to a CD and making it bootable would allow your computer to boot. Though, I don't know that that would get you past the winlogon problem, I don't think that it will, as this option would have you booting into the Windows GUI.

I think at this point your best luck would be with running the recovery console, if you're able to find your XP CD. I even dug up some pretty straightforward directions:
[pre]
1. Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.

2. Shutdown and restart your computer.

3. Boot the CD-ROM, pressing R on the Welcome screen, or start the Recovery Console from the menu.

4. Select the Windows XP instance that you wish to access and enter the Administrator's password.

5. Type: expand <CD-ROM Drive Letter>\I386\comctl32.dl_ <Windows Drive Letter>\<Windows Folder>\System32

6. Type Exit.

7. Restart Windows XP.

If you cannot expand the files, repair the installation:

1. Boot the CD-ROM.

2. Press Enter on the Welcome screen.

3. Press F8 to accept the End-User License Agreement.

4. Press R to repair the installation, following the on-screen instructions.[pre]

THe boot disk or cd should work, if not, go grab a copy of lophtcrack and bypass login entirely long enough to repair it.

Nope, no error, it just immediately restarts. As for l0phtcrack... I couldn't find any copies under a rock that didn't have virii. I have it on a CD somewhere, but it's going to be in the same pile that Windows is.


Trying to find my copy of PHLAK, I can probably get access to the HD that way.

Edited, Sat May 22 23:02:26 2004 by Chtulhu