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by abrar hazarika 1 view

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I have a win 2000 server system with one physical drive and 2 primary dos partitions (one of them active)in it, sounds strange but thats what it is.
To install linux i deleted the inactive pri dos partition since it didnt contain any data.

Now before installing linux when i tried to go back to my windows, and the win 2000 failed to start. It says windows2000root/system32/ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupted.

And unluckily i didnt have a ERD for that machine. So reloaded Win2000 server in a different directory and brought up the machine.
Now how can i repair my old win2000 installation. I copied the reqd file directly from the new system32 location but still the same error persist.

Please any suggestions.

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by joseph moore

Put your Windows 2000 cd in the drive and boot off of it.
It will ask you to either install a new copy of Windows 2000 (which you did) or if you want to Repair a previous installation.
Choose R for repair
This will bring up the Recovery Console.You can restore NTOSKRNL.exe from the cd to the original 2000 install.

Also, in Windows 2000, there are no longer ERD. We have the Recovery Console instead.

Hope this helps.

by abrar hazarika

I got the things allright. But can anyone tell me how to uninstall the new win2000 installation. It is useless and taking up a lot of space. Deleting is an option but clean totally we need to somehow uninstall it.

Any help please.

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