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HelloI have Lite and Win-7 dual booting which have been working OK for over a yearAfter a problem with Win-7 I reinstalled it after which I could not boot into Lite (black screen with Flashing cursorI used Boot-Repair Disk to mend the boot menu I can now boot to Win-7 OK . When I try to boot to Lite the Lite-Splash screen comes up - the progress bar goes normally for a 3rd of the way but then goes very slowly to the end . The PC then hangs Colin
chntpw -u colin SAM
chntpw -u Colin SAM
| RID -|---------- Username ------------| Admin? |- Lock? --|| 01f4 | Administrator | ADMIN | dis/lock || 03e8 | Colin | ADMIN | || 01f5 | Guest | | dis/lock |
> The problem was created because of a Ransom attackMy guess is the attack crippled your user account. At what point are they demanding the ransom? At the Welcome screen? IAC, if I am correct the SAM hive, and perhaps others as well, is corrupted and you must either revert to a restore point, use last known good config, or restore the registry manually the way I described (and maybe not just the SAM file either, though I would start there). Best would be if you keep up to date system images offline. The alternative would be to try to rescue data and settings, if they're not backed up, and then do a fresh install. At least, that's how I would approach it. Perhaps a malware expert would have a lower level way to solve the problem.
[font=Verdana][size=78%] not sure where to go n --Concerned about this line ( [/font][/size][font=Verdana][size=x-small]Cannot find value <\SAM\Domains\Account\Users\Names\colin\@>)[/font][/size][font=Verdana][size=x-small][/font][/size][font=Verdana][size=x-small]The problem was created because of a Ransom attack (my own slip up )[/font][/size][font=Verdana][size=78%][/font][/size]
This thread is fascinating. I'm learning some stuff. Good teamwork here.
chntpw -l SAM
chntpw -u user SAM
../system32/RegBack over to the ../config folder.