‘Security Accounts Manager initialization failed…’ Windows
Error and Recovery
Security Accounts Manager or SAM is a Windows registry
component stored as a database to store users’ passwords in
hashed format. If the file gets deleted somehow, the odds
are attacker can log into your system account. Apart from
such security breaches, if the file goes missing or get
corrupt, your Windows system gives some errors while system
boot-up. To resolve such problems, you might need to
reinstall the operating system and consequently, restore
data from backup. Data restoration issues are observed if
you don’t have any valid data backup. Thus, you should use
Hard Drive Recovery tools to effectively recover data thus
lost.
Consider that you use Windows XP system and when you try to
start the system, it gives the following error message:
“Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of
the following error: A device attached to the system is not
functioning.
Error Status: 0xc0000001.
Please click OK to shut down this system and reboot into
Safe Mode, check event log for more detailed information.”
The above error is typically observed with a Windows XP Home
Edition or Windows XP Professional based computer system.
However, if you try to start the computer in Windows safe
mode, you get the same error as above.
Cause
You encounter this error if SAM file is missing or
corrupted/damaged.
Solution
In order to solve such SAM issues, you need to replace the
file or restore it from a backup. You need to follow any of
these methods to troubleshoot the problem:
Restore the SAM file from backup. You can do this only if
you have used a backup utility that could backup system
state.
Copy SAM file from C:WINDOWSrepair to
C:WINDOWSsystem32config
Reinstall Windows and restore data from backup.
If no clean backup exists, you need to use Hard Drive
Recovery Software that are fully-featured data recovery
applications designed to perform safe and effective recovery
of all the lost data. Hard Drive Recovery utilities are
graphically rich applications that incorporate high-end
scanning algorithms to examine a logically crashed drive.
You can use such tools in all logical data loss scenarios.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a fully-featured
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explains the situations Security Accounts Manager
initialization failure that can cause data loss .Author has
given solution of hard drive recovery and suggested to use
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