Repairing Win 2000????????

[QMaze]

Can anyone tell me if its possible to repair a Windows
2000 installation using an Emergency Repair Disk from
another Win 2000 machine.

I have a laptop I am trying to repair that is incapable
of booting, <INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE - 7B> due to the
owner not having any anti-virus software. I have run a
DOS level anti-virus and have found a dozen or so viruses
and backdoors. It would be nice to try to recover the
data but cannot get it to boot into Windows or repair
without an ERD.

Any suggestions?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Easiest to recover your data from a parallel install or possibly
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml

Also; ERD's are machine specific.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| Can anyone tell me if its possible to repair a Windows
| 2000 installation using an Emergency Repair Disk from
| another Win 2000 machine.
|
| I have a laptop I am trying to repair that is incapable
| of booting, <INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE - 7B> due to the
| owner not having any anti-virus software. I have run a
| DOS level anti-virus and have found a dozen or so viruses
| and backdoors. It would be nice to try to recover the
| data but cannot get it to boot into Windows or repair
| without an ERD.
|
| Any suggestions?

 

[John Wunderlich]

Can anyone tell me if its possible to repair a Windows
2000 installation using an Emergency Repair Disk from
another Win 2000 machine.

I have a laptop I am trying to repair that is incapable
of booting, <INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE - 7B> due to the
owner not having any anti-virus software. I have run a
DOS level anti-virus and have found a dozen or so viruses
and backdoors. It would be nice to try to recover the
data but cannot get it to boot into Windows or repair
without an ERD.

In a situation similar to yours, I was able to save all my data by
booting to Linux from the free Knoppix CD at:
<http://www.knoppix.org>
It is a HUGE download, but if you can get it on another machine and
burn the bootable CD, it will boot with full network access as well as
read access to your NTFS disk. Connect to a FTP server using the web
browser and drag a folder into the window and offload your data.

HTH & Good Luck,
John