Start up problems

[Guest]

Hi all,

MY windows 2000 doesn't start up. In the Normal mode it takes a long time to
startup. After a while the Blue Screen appear. GRRRRRRRRRR

The Safe mode even doesn't start up. (black screen upper left only a
blinking cursor).

With a bootdisk a failure appears but start up continues to the dos prompt.
But when I go to C:\ only the virtual RAM drive appears.

Any suggestions? I have data on the HD !!!!!!

Could it be that the HD is probably FAT16 and the bootdisk FAT 32 or NTFS?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all,

MY windows 2000 doesn't start up. In the Normal mode it takes a long time to
startup. After a while the Blue Screen appear. GRRRRRRRRRR

The Safe mode even doesn't start up. (black screen upper left only a
blinking cursor).

With a bootdisk a failure appears but start up continues to the dos prompt.
But when I go to C:\ only the virtual RAM drive appears.

Any suggestions? I have data on the HD !!!!!!

Could it be that the HD is probably FAT16 and the bootdisk FAT 32 or NTFS?

Your hard disk could be FAT32 or NTFS. It can't b FAT16 because
its capacity would be inadequate for Win2000. However, all of this
does not matter - Win2000 can access all three file systems.

Your boot disk is most likely a Win98/DOS7 boot disk. It can't
be NTFS because it's too small. Since it runs DOS it cannot access
NTFS partitions on the hard disk.

Your idea to boot the machine with a DOS boot disk in order
to find out what's left on your hard disk is a good starting point.
Now push it a bit further by doing this:
- Run ntfsdos.exe /LMN so that you can see the ntfs partitions
on the hard disk.
- Run fdisk.exe so that you can check if the first partition on
the hard disk is active.

You can get ntfsdos.exe from www.sysinternals.com.