Reinstall W2K

[Tom Gunby]

Trying to accomplish a reinstall of the OS using the W2000
setup CD to recover from a Process1_Initialization_Failed
stop error.

Problem is the setup program cannot see the installed
(corrupt?) OS.

KB 292175 says "If the Setup program does not detect a
previous installation but just continues to the
partitioning screen, there is a problem. An in-place
upgrade may not be possible."

Is there any way to copy necessary files to the corrupted
systemroot directory (I can write to systemroot of the
damaged OS by configuring the drive as slave in another
computer running W2K) and enable the setup program to see
and repair the damaged OS?

Thank you.

Tom Gunby

 

[Mark Wilson]

Tom,

Boot to the recovery console from a Windows 2000 CD (Choose R - Repair, C -
Recovery Console after booting from CD) and run CHKDSK /R. This should fix
the corruption problems and allow the system to boot normally.


Mark Wilson [MS]
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