Windows 2000 reinstallation...

[Luke Guerrant]

I had an issues installing the Windows 2000 SP4. The
computer stopped responding during the 'writing to the
registry' phase of the installation. I knew this would be
bad...but I had to reboot the computer anyway. Of course
now the OS is completely hosed and the computer won't
boot. I am getting a bluescreen with what looks like a
file path error to a dll or something.

Anyway...I tried repairing the installation with the
windows 2000 disk, that did not work. I guess next I want
to reinstall the OS...but I am curious if I reinstall the
OS, am I going to lose all of my programs and data...I
mean if I don't have to do a format?

 

[Tim]

-----Original Message-----
I had an issues installing the Windows 2000 SP4. The
computer stopped responding during the 'writing to the
registry' phase of the installation. I knew this would be
bad...but I had to reboot the computer anyway. Of course
now the OS is completely hosed and the computer won't
boot. I am getting a bluescreen with what looks like a
file path error to a dll or something.

Anyway...I tried repairing the installation with the
windows 2000 disk, that did not work. I guess next I want
to reinstall the OS...but I am curious if I reinstall the
OS, am I going to lose all of my programs and data...I
mean if I don't have to do a format?
.
Repairing OS is like reinstalling OS, you will probably

still have same issue if you try to reinstall, no you will
no lose data, but it looks like to me formating is going
to probably be your answer and then you will lose your data

try to boot from CD and use crossover cable to connect
with another computer, do ipconfig and set other computers
ip to one number different, same gateway and subnet, then
use netuse on bad computer and copy data to good one

 

[Luke]

-----Original Message-----

still have same issue if you try to reinstall, no you will
no lose data, but it looks like to me formating is going
to probably be your answer and then you will lose your data

try to boot from CD and use crossover cable to connect
with another computer, do ipconfig and set other computers
ip to one number different, same gateway and subnet, then
use netuse on bad computer and copy data to good one

The computer won't boot at all...I don't know that I could
get the data off except on to a floppy drive. Can you
back data off in the Recovery console? Is there a better
means of saving data like a zip drive or jaz drive or USB
jump drive? There is no way to put data on a 1.44 mb disk.

 

[Tim]

-----Original Message-----


The computer won't boot at all...I don't know that I could
get the data off except on to a floppy drive. Can you
back data off in the Recovery console? Is there a better
means of saving data like a zip drive or jaz drive or USB
jump drive? There is no way to put data on a 1.44 mb disk.

.
You can boot from a Windows PE disk to command prompt and

send data to another computer (connect to another with
netuse <drive letter you want to call it:> <other computer
name or ip>)
then copy to that drive you specified