event log

[Bobby]

hi,

recently we had a weird reboot on one of our servers running win2k advanced
server. now every time i scroll down the "system log" i receive a message
stating that the event log is corrupt (around nov 26th timeframe). so it
only takes a few scrolls down and then i get that message. i've read up on
how i can go about renaming the log file and having a new one start but i am
actually interested in seeing the events of that day (nov 26th) as it is
critical. the problem i guess is somehow viewing the corrupt event log or
extracting the data from it, if at all possible. i just want to see it in
its entirety and see what went wrong that day as this server is working in
"half-ass" mode, pardon my french.

any help would be appreciated.

thanks in advance,

bobby

 

[Mike Rosado [MSFT]]

Hi Bobby,

Unfortunately, we seen Event Log corruption occur for several different
reasons. Have you already applied Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service
Pack 4 (SP4)? See the following article for more details

829246 Event logs are corrupted
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=829246

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Hope this helps,
Mike Rosado
Windows 2000 MCSE + MCDBA
Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support
Windows NT/2000/2003 Cluster Technologies

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