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by mcse75

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I received this email from a programmer friend asking for help, anyone have any ideas.

I have a client running MS SmallBusiness Server 2000 (about 6 users). Their C drive filled up for some
reason over several days until the received a message to the effect that
their drive was full, and that they should boot into Directory Services
Restore mode and remove files. They called me because I initially set up
this server for them. I deleted files (via DSR) to free about 300M. Upon
rebooting, every time a user logs in locally at the server, the server
crashes. If the login is done rapidly, immediately upon seeing the 'press
CTRL-ALT-DEL' window, you might get 5 minutes to do something, during heavy
disk activity, before it blue screens again.

Now, if you don't log in, then all is fine, client-wise. Files are served,
and Exchange (which they only use for sharing contacts and calendars) runs.

Attempting to repair the install fails, and there is a message concerning a
drive error. Using recovery console and chkdsk shows no errors. Perhaps it
is some kind of drive mirror problem. It's a Netfinity 3000, 256M RAM,
mirrored SCSI 9G drives.

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by jwilczyn

Only suggestion - try to break the mirror, restart and check HDs, can users log on without blue screen, delete/format 2nd HD and re-establish the mirror.
Good luck

by estebandelatorre

If it is a mirror problem, you should see an error in the event log of the server (from other machine)
I suggest you, If it is possible, connect to the server using \\ server\c$ and delete the user or administrator profile(s) in the server and thentry to login again.
Good luck

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