So you now have one damaged install and two extra partial installs? What
were you going to do if one of them succeeded? Try a new install to \winnt2.
Setup will overwrite whatever is there. Be sure to F6 if necessary and
provide and third party controller drivers required.
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"jerry222" wrote:
> Win2kpro can't start (.........\Drivers\ntfs.sys error ) so tried a repair
> install. Insatlled win2k into a new folder named WINNT.alt. Afterwards I
> installed the OS to a different folder named WINNT2. Boot to OS CD. Accept
> EULA (F8), select R (repair). Windows deleted files and then copied files.
> System rebooted, got windows 2000 GUI, with message at bottom saying
> 'Windows
> 2000 is starting up'. Black console screen then appears with win2k gui and
> message at top saying 'Setup is being restarted........ ' OS CD spin then
> stop. Got dark console screen which stayed on and setup didn't restart.
> Rebooted, went to win2k setup, repair console, and did chkdsk /r.
> Restarted
> and got same result. The hdd has two Windows folders WINNT and WINNT2. The
> 1st has a lot of folders and files like a normal system. WINN2 has only 2
> folders, system and system32. system is empty, system32 has folders
> config,
> drivers, os2, ras and spool. os2 has a dll folder which is empty, spool
> has a
> drivers folder which is empty. The other system32 folders are empty.
> Should I
> delete WINNT2? I don't see the WINNT.alt folder that was created. Why
> can't
> Win2k Setup restart?
>
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