I haven't used my x64 for a week, and this morning I was booting it, and it
came to the section after where you see the Windows-logo, and then
popped-up a message for a split-second, and rebooted again, doing the same
thing over and over. The message said something about lsass.exe and
password.
So I wanted to log-in via the Recovery Console, but could not log-in there,
because the Admin password was wrong. Odd, as I had not changed it.
So I went searching for ways to reset the password, and one was to delete
the SAM-files in system32/config. I booted from x32, went to the x64
partition, and oddly enough I noticed the file called "security" was living
twice in that folder, but one was called "securXXX", where the XXX where
some Chinese characters. I renamed the one called "security" to
"security.org" and in the other one removed the Chinese characters and
changed them to "ity", reboot, and hey presto, working again :-D
It might have been a corrupt disk, or corrupt FAT or something. I ran a
chkdsk, but it did not find any problems.
So, my problem got fixed, but I thought I would just share it with you.
I wish all those celebrating the upcoming one, a Happy New Year!!!!
Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese etc, your's will come soon again :-))
jud