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My stepfather's PC is unbootable. It runs Windows 2000 Professional
with just one partition. It spans the entire hard drive and doesn't
boot. There is a corrupted WINNT\system32\config\system folder.
Unsaved files must be recovered. I first tried to get the computer to
boot into Windows 2000 by using all startup options including Safe
Mode and Last Known Good Configuration. None worked. I then found no
Emergency Recovery Disk (ERD) exists. Uh Oh. Less important there is
no Windows 2000 CD which physically cracked and was thrown away. I
have Windows 2000 Boot Disks and am going there tommorrow to recover
his data files and hopefully the partition itself.
I plan to use four Windows 2000 boot floppies to get Windows going.
From the Windows 2000 Setup screen, I can select to repair it by
either 1) the Recovery Console or 2) the Emergency Repair Process. I
would choose the Emergency Repair Process instead of the Recovery
Console for sure if there was an ERD. Even without an ERD, I plan to
choose Emerency Repair Process. Below is my reasoning and (at least
today right now) how I think it will happen...
After the fourth Windows 2000 boot disk, Windows 2000 Setup will
appear, and I will choose Emergency Repair Process. Here I will be
prompted for the ERD. Without an ERD I think that Windows 2000 Setup
can still try to automatically find the files that would have been on
an ERD. These would be files created during the original installation.
Is this right? Does it sometimes work?
That would be great...
Again and re-phrased in case I wasn't clear...
Without an ERD, is it still worth trying the Emergency Repair Process?
Could Windows 2000 sometimes find original System files and reinstall
them over corrupt ones?
Again and re-phrased in case I wasn't clear
That would be great...
with just one partition. It spans the entire hard drive and doesn't
boot. There is a corrupted WINNT\system32\config\system folder.
Unsaved files must be recovered. I first tried to get the computer to
boot into Windows 2000 by using all startup options including Safe
Mode and Last Known Good Configuration. None worked. I then found no
Emergency Recovery Disk (ERD) exists. Uh Oh. Less important there is
no Windows 2000 CD which physically cracked and was thrown away. I
have Windows 2000 Boot Disks and am going there tommorrow to recover
his data files and hopefully the partition itself.
I plan to use four Windows 2000 boot floppies to get Windows going.
From the Windows 2000 Setup screen, I can select to repair it by
either 1) the Recovery Console or 2) the Emergency Repair Process. I
would choose the Emergency Repair Process instead of the Recovery
Console for sure if there was an ERD. Even without an ERD, I plan to
choose Emerency Repair Process. Below is my reasoning and (at least
today right now) how I think it will happen...
After the fourth Windows 2000 boot disk, Windows 2000 Setup will
appear, and I will choose Emergency Repair Process. Here I will be
prompted for the ERD. Without an ERD I think that Windows 2000 Setup
can still try to automatically find the files that would have been on
an ERD. These would be files created during the original installation.
Is this right? Does it sometimes work?
That would be great...
Again and re-phrased in case I wasn't clear...
Without an ERD, is it still worth trying the Emergency Repair Process?
Could Windows 2000 sometimes find original System files and reinstall
them over corrupt ones?
Again and re-phrased in case I wasn't clear
That would be great...