Won't boot or repair

[Chris]

Dear All,

I have a machine running W2K that won't boot to the login screen. I've
tried to repair the installation by booting with the W2k CD. I've also
tried Safe mode, Last known good, and recovery console. recovery Console
could not log into the system either.

Does anyone know of an easy means I can remove my required data before I
reimage the machine?

Cheers,

Chris.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Dear All,

I have a machine running W2K that won't boot to the login screen. I've
tried to repair the installation by booting with the W2k CD. I've also
tried Safe mode, Last known good, and recovery console. recovery Console
could not log into the system either.

Does anyone know of an easy means I can remove my required data before I
reimage the machine?

Cheers,

Chris.

There are several ways of restoring data:
a) The easy way: Restore it from backup.
b) The hard way: Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk
from www.bootdisk.com, then run ntfsdos.exe from
www.sysinternals.com. You can now access all your
files, unfortunately with short file names.
c) Leaning on friends: Install your disk as a slave disk
in a friend's Win2000/XP PC, then save your files.
d) The professional way: Boot the PC with a Bart WinXP
boot CD (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#download), then
save your files. You will need a WinXP Professional
CD plus a CD burner to manufacture this CD.

If a) above is not available then you might consider this
event as an encouragement to review your backup strategy.

 

[Guest]

The other option, if you have a second disk, CD writer or some form of removable media come from way back - NT 4 days...the parallel installation

Reinstall Win2k on the same partition in a different folder, e.g. WinNT2 and get the files that way

Although I always tend to do it the way Pegasus described -by temporarily putting the disk into another machine as a secondary disk.

 

[Chris]

Thanks for your input Pegasus.

I found an easy way around it. The problem I had was that the machine is a
laptop so couldn't really hitch the HD up to an IDE. Instead I just
installed XP Pro and shoved the required files onto a network share.

As far as backups go ... all my users have been told to keep important
information on a network share for backing up! But as per usual ... they
don't listen

Thanks again,

Chris.