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- May 31, 2004
My favorite winxp machine has crashed and upon reboot it displays the error:
services.exe can not start
LSASS.exe bad image
and stops. This error is reported all over the net, but the files LSASS.exe and SAMASARV.dll aren't even mentioned on the Microsoft site. I have found no viable solution reading several pages of problems reported but mostly unanswered.
I have tired some fixes, but none of them did anything. So now the only thing left is to a reinstall. However I don't remember what kind of windows was on this machine ie: pro, home, sp1, sp2, oem or upgrade. I have tired several winxp disks I have but all fail in mid reinstall with the error:
catalog missing components
specifically "asms" is the first reported missing, which I take to mean I need a particular disk to reinstall with. Is there any way to discover the original product key I installed with? Is there any way to discover what kind of windows was installed? I was hoping maybe the registry would preserve such information somewhere.
I have what I think was the original i386 folder on the hard drive, but I don't know how to extract any information from that folder. Unfortunately it is possible the i386 folder is from another disk and I just copied it there thinking one was as good as another....apparently not!!
services.exe can not start
LSASS.exe bad image
and stops. This error is reported all over the net, but the files LSASS.exe and SAMASARV.dll aren't even mentioned on the Microsoft site. I have found no viable solution reading several pages of problems reported but mostly unanswered.
I have tired some fixes, but none of them did anything. So now the only thing left is to a reinstall. However I don't remember what kind of windows was on this machine ie: pro, home, sp1, sp2, oem or upgrade. I have tired several winxp disks I have but all fail in mid reinstall with the error:
catalog missing components
specifically "asms" is the first reported missing, which I take to mean I need a particular disk to reinstall with. Is there any way to discover the original product key I installed with? Is there any way to discover what kind of windows was installed? I was hoping maybe the registry would preserve such information somewhere.
I have what I think was the original i386 folder on the hard drive, but I don't know how to extract any information from that folder. Unfortunately it is possible the i386 folder is from another disk and I just copied it there thinking one was as good as another....apparently not!!