My PDC boots to the desktop but hangs there, responds to some things,(ie: chkdsk) but for all practical purposes is dead. Never loads all icons. Unable to see on network. Ran chkdsk, tried repair with ERD, no go. Tried restoring registry, no help. Restored “WINNT” folder, worked! but when rebooted goes back to dead state. Tried restoring to earlier backup, tried up to 5 weeks back, and no good after reboot. Also sometimes no worky after restore, even before rebooted. Cannot see rhyme or reason to it. I have it up on thin ice now by restoring to state of few days ago then booting without network plugged in. Then when it showed to be working properly plugged into network. Of course have not rebooted. I am thinking I need to format this partition and re-install NT. Problem is: approx. 170 printers shared on this server. Also few hundred user shares. How can I format and still keep these????
