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Win2K proffessional gone fubar

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by quake 1 view

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This morning I have received a laptop with WIN2K and 2 NTFS partitions. There is something wrong with the filing system, after the progress bar on boot it reboots again and again and so on. I ran scan disk and all that crap - no luck, tried using ntfs dos, the volumes are blank, but when you ntfschkdsk it goes through files.
I does the same for all the recovery options (safe mode and the rest of them)
I am about to run the repair off the installation cd.
Anyone?

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by kenalmoore

I hope the repair works.
If not, change the bios to boot from the CD
and do a clean install.
In fact I would not try the repair, just
do a format and clean install, you will get much better results with a fresh OS

by shepster

It sounds as if you want to recover files, is this correct? If so, your best shot is going to be slaving this drive to an existing Win2K machine. If the hard drive is not completely corrupt, this should allow you to browse and recover files from the damaged disk. Once you recover any necessary data, fdisk, format and reinstall. I strongly recommend not trying to repair the install as it will lead to headaches down the road. Hope this helps.

by bat511

Don?t know if you have resources to do this, but when the world is ending this is what we do, BEFORE clean install. Since these crashed computers probably have data on it that is wanted?
We built a Frankenstein machine that would allow us to put the drive from the Laptop onto a Desktop computer. A little IDE adapter is all you need to let you connect this drive, to your desktop.
We put Windows 2000 on Frank, and we are able to get any important data off the drive.
This does not save thecurrent configuration, but it has save my butt and lots of time on many occasions.

by jamieo

I have had a similar experience and had little luck with the repair. I ran the W2K Pro install on an unused partition of the drive, set that partition as active, and rebooted. This allowed me to recover the files on the other (boot record corrupted) NTFS partition. Once I had all the files (but not the settings) that I needed, I did run a format/clean install.

Hope this helps.
Jamie.

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