Emergency Repair Disk

[kevin]

Have a dual boot system with win 2k & win 98. I had to
reinstall win 98 and never made Emergency Repair Disk. Now
win 2k wont boot for me. I've tried using the repair on win
2k CD but it can't locate the windows 2000 installation.
The recovery console picks up the windows 2000 installation
though.

Is their any way of making a Emergency Repair Disk from the
recovery console? If there isn,t is there any other way to
get win 2000 to boot short of reinstalling it.

Thanks

 

[Dave Patrick]

Try booting the recovery console and from a command prompt issue the command
fixboot

To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000
Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup
floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup CD,
use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy disks.
Press ENTER at the "Setup Notification" screen. Press R to repair a Windows
2000 installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The
Recovery Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do
not have the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the
computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the Recovery
Console quits and restarts the computer. Once the password has been
validated, you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access
to the hard disk. You can only access the following folders on your
computer: %systemroot% and %windir%

Or try creating a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows
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),
and 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.