I made a serious mistake by editing some Security permissions on the C: and D: drives of my windows server 2003 server. After doing so, I restarted the computer, and now before the login prompt appears, it says that “At least one service or driver failed to load during system startup.” Then, when I try to log in with the Administrator account, the login prompt goes away for a split second and then reappears, seemingly doing nothing. Also, Safe Mode performs the same way.
I imagine that crucial services are unable to load, and now I am in a very bad predicament. Does anybody know of a way to recover from such a situation? I have a system backup on tape drive, but I cannot get into windows to use it. I have tried loading the Windows Server 2003 R2 cds and loading them, and trying to “Recover the existing OS” but it tells me that I have no Hard Disks installed…(I have 5 hot swappable SATA drives in the Server).
Can anyone give me any kind of help? I am not really sure where I can go from here except reinstalling the entire OS which would mean losing some recent work…
Thanks,
Paul
