HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boot disk

[John Temmerman]

I'm running win 2000 professional. We had a power outage
last night and now my computer won't boot. I cannot find
the win2000 professional disks and I don't have a boot
disk for win2000. I do have a boot disk for 98 but it
wants to partition the hard drive, which would wipe
everything out.

I need to get up and running and I need not to lose any
data.

Any suggestions?

Do I need to buy another set of Win2000?

How about creating a boot disk in ME (what I have at the
office)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please reply by
email.

 

[Dave Patrick]

For the floppy to successfully boot Windows NT/2000 the disk must contain
the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on an NT machine, not a DOS/Win9x,
so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy ntldr,
ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys. Edit the
boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.


Else if you meant a dos disk, you can boot a Win98 startup disk or navigate
to;
\VALUEADD\3RDPARTY\CA_ANTIV\
on your Windows 2000 install CD-Rom and execute makedisk.bat or
www.bootdisk.com


Else if you wanted setup disks, the set of four install disks can be created
from your Win2k CD-rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the cd-rom and
execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.