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0xC00002ED: STATUS_DS_SAM_INIT_FAILURE_CONSOLE

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0xC00002ED = 3,221,226,221 = -1073741075

NTSTATUS 0xC00002ED

STATUS_DS_SAM_INIT_FAILURE_CONSOLE

Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the following error: %hs Error Status: 0x%x. Please click OK to shutdown the system. You can use the recovery console to diagnose the system further.

%1, %2… are where Windows fills in details such as a file or program name.

Becomes the Win32 error: 8562ERROR_DS_SAM_INIT_FAILURE_CONSOLE: Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the following error: %1. Error Status: 0x%2. Please click OK to shutdown the system. You can use the recovery console to diagnose the system further.

Severity (bits 30-31)3: Error
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
Facility0 (0x000)
Code749 (0x02ED)