Hi all,
A very strange one this – I hope someone has come across this one…
I use a laptop hdd adaptor at work to plug client’s W2k laptop hdds to a desktop system’s secondary IDE channel so I can transfer their data across before reimaging theirdrives. I’ve noticed a few times that when I disconnect the laptop drive and plug the cdrom back in that after rebooting I am not able to login. When I try ctrl-alt-del W2k informs me that there is no page file or it is too small, with a dialogue box telling me how to set it – then proceeds to drop me back to the logon screen!! The same happens whether I try loggin on with either a local admin or domain user account. My only option first time was to reimage.
Also sometimes after I have shutdown and connected a laptop drive to the desktop system W2k says it has found new hardware and asks to restart – I tried cancelling and shutting down but again get that dialogue box at logon. I think it may have something to do with the disk administrator wanting to write a new signature to the disk. Once after unplugging the laptop drive W2k changed the desktop drives letters. All our W2k machines typically have 2 partitions – system and another where user profiles are stored. The security policy caches the last 5 logons so users are able to logon if no network is available.
The wierd thing is that when you attempt to logon after that box pops up, it looks like it isn’t even attempting to authenticate – it happens that fast.
Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
