Re: Help with repair boot disk - repair is not detecting boot disk

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"RLC Web" <RLCWeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have created a set of Windows 2000 repair boot disks. I have corrupted
Windows 2000 system files so I am trying to use the repair boot disks. I
did
the following:

1) booted up from emergency repair boot disk #1 (then inserted disks 2-4).
2) gone through the menus for repair options for 'manual' repair

When it comes to the repair asking me to insert boot disk in drive A:, I
did
and hit ENTER. But when I did this, it does NOT detected any of the
emergency repair boot disks.

Please, I need help ASAP!!!

I think the four disks you used to boot your machine are the
Recovery Console boot diskettes. They are not emergency
repair diskettes. You could have booted into the Recovery
Console much more quickly by booting the machine with your
Win2000 installation CD and selecting Repair when prompted.

When the system asks you to insert the Emergency Repair boot
diskette then you need to give it the diskette you made with
ntbackup.exe (Tools / Create an Emergency Repair Disk).
This is NOT the same as Disk 1 of your Recovery Console
boot diskettes. If you did not make one of them then you cannot
use this repair process. These days few people use this method.
Most prefer to create a full image of their installation, using
one of the well known third-party imaging products.

Try booting into Safe Mode or into Last Known Good
Configuration.


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