Re: System rebooting on startup

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"Head Hunter" wrote:
|I have a system that dual-boots Win98 and Win2000 on separate partitions.
| Both systems are fully current on updates and anti-virus. Everything was
| working fine on Saturday. Sunday morning, I was in Win98 and it was fine.
| I rebooted into Win2000, and that is when the fun started.
|
| First, I had a "missing or corrupt D:\WINNT\System32\Config\System file".
| Not a problem. My D-Drive is formatted as FAT32 for just this kind of
| problem, so I booted into Win98, and copied the file from the Repair
folder,
| and rebooted. Then, Win2000 had to perform a consistancy check on my D:
| drive. Was taking forever (15 minutes to get to 17% with no problems), so
I
| went to watch TV. Came back, and saw the screen had the white and blue
| "Windows 2000 is starting" screen. Then, black screen and reboot. Now, I
| just get the white bar going across the bottom of the screen, gets all the
| way across, then reboot. Safe Mode doesn't work either, same problem.
|
| I am not getting a blue screen or any kind of error. It just keeps
| rebooting. I really don't want to have to reinstall everything if I don't
| have to. Forunately, I can get to most of my data from Win98, but there
is
| a partition on another physical hard drive that is NTFS, so I can't see
it.
|
| Any ideas, before I do the deed and reinstall???
|
|


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