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by ad1206

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i have WINDOWS NT SERVER INSTALLED ON MY PC .
TODAY WHEN I STARTED MY PC I GOT AN ERROR MESSAGE AS"WINDOWN NT COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLL.FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT.
\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM HARDWARE PROFILE\LAST KNOWN GOOD MENU".
I DONT HAVE A EMERGENCY REPAIR DISK.I INSTALLED WINDOWS NT IN ANOTHER DIRECTORY(WINDNT).IT IS BOOTING THROUGH THIS DIRECTORY BUT NOT THROUGH ORIGINAL WINNT DIR.WHAT TO DO?I HAVE SOME VERY IMPORTANT PROGRAMS LOADED.I WANT TO RETAIN THOSE PROGS.

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by joseph moore

Sorry, but the news is not good. Here is a quote from Technet article Q102721:

This issue may occur when something is writing too much data to the System subkey (The System subkey of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive) in the registry. The System subkey is designed exclusively for information that is necessary to boot the computer.

Intel and ARC (RISC) systems have a design limit such that 16 MB of memory is available at this stage of the boot process. The System registry file has to share the16 MB with the loader, kernel, HAL, and boot drivers. In some instances, the System subkey may be as large as 13 MB in size (or larger).

Please read the rest of the article for the recommended solution (which is either the ERD or reinstall NT):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q102721
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Sorry for the bad news.

by adembo

Can you slave the drive with another that has nt server on it and then copy the files it needs from the master to your slave drive, the same thing for retrieving the programs if need be, by slaving it.

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