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hi, i finally (regretably) upgraded to winxp. when it rebooted during the install it gave an error:
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lsass.exe - entry point not found
the procedure entry point samiamigc could not be located in the dynamic link library samsrv.dll.
[/code]with just a button that says [ok]. if i hit ok i get a blue background and i can move the mouse curser but no start button, icons, ... 3-finger solute (ctrl-alt-del) does nothing.
same with safe-mode, safe-mode with cammand prompt, ...i had to start the upgrade from win 2k because for some reason when i restart my pc with the disk in the drive it will say: press any key to start install. then after that the screen goes blank (the green light on the cdrom flickers and i can hear it spinning but after about 1 minute it stops spinning and the screen remains blank -- i left it alone for at least 1 hour.) - i know it is not the bios boot sequence because i am currently using knoppix live-cd .
i am not planning on buying a new pc with xp pre-loaded and i don't feel like wasting money on a new cd with no guarantee that it would work.
i have a dell with a celeron 2 ghz 512 mb ram ati 9800xt duel-boot redhat-9
any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
What kind of WinXP CD are you using and what service pack is integrated into the XP CD? What size and interface (IDE/ SATA) is the harddrive and how big is the partition you are installing WinXP on?
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Did you Google?
http://www.google.com/search?q=lsas...
Life's more painless for the brainless.
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thanks for the replies, the win-xp cd should be equivelant to retail. when i was in college microsoft did a presentation on .net enterprise edition and gave out cd's of .net enterprise and win-xp. i dont know anything about service packs but since i got it before win-xp came out in retail, i assume there is no service packs on it.
my mb only has ide connectors.
in knoppix:
hda is 117 gb ext3/swap
hdb1 is 35 gb fat32
hdb2 is 5 gb ntfsi did do a google search but there are no hits about my issue (samiamigc). everything else i read seems unrelated.
also, since i lost my win 2k disk i have no windows operating system on this computer.
is there any hope for this pc or do i have to buy a new pc ?
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If the harddrive you are trying to install to is formatted in a Non-windows format you will need to remove the formatting before installing WinXP. Number of ways to accomplish that.
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hi, the harddrive i installed to is ntfs formatted. (win-2k played happilly on it for about 5 years).
it complains about samsrv.dll every time it starts
thanks anyways,
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i just spent 2 hours with microsoft support. they are stumped. they transferred me to a product order line where i would have to pay $ 28 for a non-defective disk. i declined the order out of principle of re-buying something i already own.
i guess i am forced to go without windows on my pc.
thanks for all contributions.
just a thought. since i already own windows-xp (theoretically, the product key is what you are paying for) it would not be illigal for me to download and burn the contents of the cd.
where can i get the contents from ?
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If you think the CD is the problem and you have a burner available copy the disk to CDR using verify and copy. This may yield a usable CD.
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fyi:
hi, the original problem was only due partially to a bad cd. my hardrive setup is:
hda1 - ext2-boot
hda2 - ext3
hda3 - swap
hdb1 - fat32
hdb2 - ntfssince windows wants the c-drive to be the first partition on the first disk it basically crashed on the setup because it cant read a linux harddrive.
i physically unplugged the first harddrive (as well as mess with a few jumpers and updated the bios). reformat ntfs.
i then booted up with knoppix live-usb (live-cd/ dvd should also work) i clicked on the penguin icon and did 'services -> start ssh server' and mount the ntfs drive.
i got my brothers laptop that came with xp preinstalled and used winscp to copy the i386 directory to the machine running knoppix. (i didnt try to use wine to execute winnt.exe, i thought the xp cd's recovery console would allow me to do it but for some reason it wouldnt let me in that directory -- access denied). whatever, i used bart-pe to start the install with winnt32.exe.
ironically my cd-key didnt work, i used the product key under my brothers laptop. is this illigal ? amways, i own a legit copy so im ok.so after a restart the remainder of the install program went fine.
now hopefully i wont have any more complications when i re-attach my redhat disk and use grub to boot windows.
hope this helps...
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