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Cant Get out of safe mode server 2003

One of our servers in down and I need it up in a hurry. Hopefully this is an easy question.
I rebooted the server to go into safemode but when I got there I found that is was rejecting my user name and password. I am sure they are being typed in corectly. I have had this happen before but I usualy just log in with the PC's local administrator account and it works fine. My account by the way is a Domain administrator. But this time that is not working. so I figured i would just reboot into normal mode set up a local administrator account thr reboot into safe mode again. My problem is that I cant reboot into regular mode because i did not log in to safemode by hitting F8 I did it by checking the /safeboot option in msconfig.
So it allways boots to safemode now and i cant get out of it nor can i log in under safe mode. I know this is in the boot.ini but how can i edit the boot.ini now thanks fo rthe help by the way this is server 2003
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Can you connect/edit it remotely?


Start->Run->Notepad \\Server\c$\boot.ini <Enter>

It may be read-only, so if that works, remember to navigate to the file system and remove the read-only attribute (Start->Run-> \\Server\c$)
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I dont think i can connect to the pc since it is in safemode?
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I have a boot disk with ntfs dos on it but when i try to load it it says that a ram disk could not be created (probably because you have more than 2gb of ram) and it wont load
Boot from the recovery console and use the command "bootcfg /rebuild".  This will re-create the boot.ini file.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326215
cant boot into the recovery console without the administrators password
If this is not a domain controller you will need to boot from the cd into the recovery console and use the local amin password and then follow shift-3's advice. You cant use the domain admin account as in safe mode you can't connect to the DC.
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ is a method for wiping the password on the local admin account.
Is this a domain controller?
i tried the password reset disk but it does not see any disk drives probably because it is raid ill keep looking into it
the password reset disk would not work it keept giving me a fatal error about some driver.
I downloaded NTFS4DOS and created a boot floppy then added a boot.ini file to it with the right settings. then i booted to the floppy and did a "copy a:\boot.ini c:\boot.ini" overwrote the old boot.ini and I was in buissness. Ill once had a bart pe disk that would have made this much easier ill have to make another one. thanks for trying to help guys.