My sustem fails to boot which uses Windows 2000 server. The following message is returned: "Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the following error: An internal error occured- Error Status: 0xc00000e5; Please click OK box to shutdown this system and reboot in Directory Services Repair mode, check event log for details." I rebooted the System in Directory Services Repair mode and ran chkdsk. I also restored backup of complete C drive taken over a month ago on tape drive. System restores only part of the backup files. Problem is continuing. Please help. _____R K Sharma