Hi Expert,
I have two related questions:
1) My Windows 2000 got corrupted and I was unable to boot up. Unfortunately I did not backup my emails. (During boot-up, the error was : “Windows 2000 could not start because the following file ismissing or corrupt: \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM…” ). We tried repairing by booting from CD-ROM and choosing “R” and also tried Console repair. Both were unsuccessful. After trying three times to fix it, Dell support believed my Inspiron 8000laptop HD had to be reformatted to reload Windows 2000. Is there any other way of repairing my corrupted WINNT O/s ?
2) Next we tried loading a new Windows 2000 O/S from Dell re-installation CD-ROM into a separate directory (We named it WINNT.000). This worked and it allowed me to boot up my laptop. Now I can access my C: drive and load Zip driver for my Zip drive. My question is: where and what is the folder and file names of all my MS Outlook emails stored in so I can copy them to my Iomega Zip and and later paste it back to a reformatted C: drive with reloaded Windows 2000 and Office 2000. I tried searching for *.PST on C: drive but it came up nothing. Appreciate highly any help. — BG
Note : We also tried copying the SYSTEM file from the WINNT.000 directory to the corrupted WINNT directory but still the old O/S will not boot-up.