problem starting windows 2000

[Eunice]

kind of long

When I start my computer I get to the screen where it says
starting windows and I get an error of windows 2000 could
not start because the following file is missing or
corrupt\WINNT\system32\drivers\Ntfs/sys. Then it tells me
I can repair this by running win setup. How can I fix
this? But let me give some more information that might
help. Well first of all I was getting another system error
so I made a recovery disk on another computer not sure if
this helps but on windows start up how there's white bars
well at first only filled 3 now its more toward the end
with ntfs system, also about 3 weeks ago I had a similar
problem with an error called error loading OS. I m
starting to think there maybe something wrong with my hard
drive because I only had 20gb out of 149gb of data and I
was downloading files from a friends computer, and around
like 40 gigs full problems happened then my computer
restarted and I was not able to boot. Similar to this
problem I was dl TV shows from torrent, and I came to
check the status and hard drive space left and it was at
46gb and stuff started working weird internet explore the
back forward and those icons were missing and Norton would
not load up I was getting a error loading image, then I
restarted and was able to partial fix this. Is there
something wrong with my hdd does it have damaged sectors
but why would this mess up the OS? Using another hard
drive I can view and recovery the data. Any ideas why this
is happening and what I can do to prevent this??

Thanks for reading this sorry for it being so long.

 

[Mark Wilson [MSFT]]

Hello Eunice,

Thank you for all of the information, more is typically better

It is my understanding that:
- You were having problems <unknown> so you created a recovery disk on
another machine and used it on you machine.
- Now you are having no-boot issue with a "missing or corrupt" on ntfs.sys
error message.
- OR you performed the recovery disk step after getting the "missing or
corrupt" on ntfs.sys error message.

Irregardless of exactly what order you took, if you used a recovery disk
(Emergency Repair Disk I am assuming, created via the NTBackup utility) from
another machine, choosing to do a "Repair" in setup, an in-place upgrade
seems to be your only option at this point. Please see the following article
for step on doing an in-place upgrade.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;292175

Please understand that ERD disks are particular to the machine they were
created on, meaning... if you create ERD disks for computer A & computer B,
use the computer A ERD to recover computer A & use the computer B ERD to
recover computer B. An ERD created on your computer cannot be used (except
in r-a-r-e cases) to repair other systems. This is due to the specific,
per-computer information that the ERD saves.

Also, at this point I do not really believe that there are any noted
indications that your harddrive is faulty.

Cheers,
--
Mark R. Wilson, MCSA/MCSE
Enterprise Platform Support
Server Setup

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Eunice]

I was getting some other weird error I should have wrote
it down but it had something to do with the /Winnt folder
os, not really sure but I ran a recovery and then it fixed
that problem but caused a new problem, but this allowed me
to see my hard drive with another so it some one worked.