Win2K Pro Repair install fails on dual boot system

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Steve Nielsen

I have a dual boot system; Win2k Pro sp4 & RH Linux 9.0 using GrUB boot
loader. I attempted a repair install of Win2K a few times with same
results; it finishes the initial disk check and then needs to reboot
saying to run Setup to finish the repair installation. After the reboot
it just boots into Windows normally and boot from the install CD
produces the same result; the repair install never continues after disk
check and reboot. Do I need to remove GrUB for the repair install to
finish? I've never done a repair install of Win2K but have of WinXP and
with XP when the PC reboots setup automaticaly runs.

Steve
 
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philo

Steve Nielsen said:
I have a dual boot system; Win2k Pro sp4 & RH Linux 9.0 using GrUB boot
loader. I attempted a repair install of Win2K a few times with same
results; it finishes the initial disk check and then needs to reboot
saying to run Setup to finish the repair installation. After the reboot
it just boots into Windows normally and boot from the install CD
produces the same result; the repair install never continues after disk
check and reboot. Do I need to remove GrUB for the repair install to
finish? I've never done a repair install of Win2K but have of WinXP and
with XP when the PC reboots setup automaticaly runs.

Steve


if you do not see the recovery option that's supposed to be defaulted to

i'd remove grub for the time being
 
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Steve N.

I removed GrUB boot loader from mbr, booting with boot.ini only now, but
same story when I try a repair install. I think it's gonna take a
complete nuke and re-install of W2K at this point. Damn, theres's a lot
of software I have lost install discs for (wierd things happen when you
move). Oh well, looks like a weekend project now. I do feel somewhat
consoled that this particular install of Win2K has been nearly flawless
for over two years, though! That's pretty damn good for any version of
Windows if you ask me!

Any-old-way, I'll live. I got my important shit backed up, x2.

Steve
 
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Steve Nielsen

Odd, I replied yesterday but it doesn't show up now... oh well.

Already tried that (removing GrUB). Same story - just reboots after the
disk check and starts Windows up with no setup running.

Steve
 
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Steve N.

Update:

Booted to recovery console, ran chkdsk /r (one minor error, no bad
sectors), ran fixmbr which reported a non-standard MBR (which is odd
because I ran fdisk /mbr previously from a Win98 diskette) and had it
fix it. Tried a repair install again from a Win2K Pro w/SP4 (which is
where the system is at) and it could not find quite a few .ini files on
the CD, so I cancelled and tried again with a non-SP Win2K CD, it
started the fast repair install afdter the disk check and then rebooted
part way through. I've checked for a hardware problems but everything
seem ok. The system boots and run Linux without a problem so I'm fairly
certain the hardware is ok.

Steve
 
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Steve Nielsen

Problem solved. Giving ownership to administrator of everything possible
on C: then doing a couple of disk checks and attempts at repair
installation finally got past the condition. Must have been some flakey
security issues in the file system is all I can think.

Steve
 

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