Re: Recovering/repairing Win2k install after m/b & CPU change

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Thanks. How can I capture the "blue screen?" Maybe this will give me a
clue...

-Zilla

Dave Patrick wrote:
Setup has two stages: text mode and graphics mode. The system hive is copied
to a .sav file after the text-mode stage of setup to protect it from errors
that might occur if the graphics-mode stage of setup fails. If setup fails
during the graphics-mode stage, only the graphics-mode stage is repeated
when the computer is restarted; the .sav file is used to restore the hive
data.

Not sure where this leaves you. You may be in an endless loop.

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"Zilla" wrote:
| Thanks, the second article was actually helpful. Now on the "Press F8"
| screen, I get
| "Windows can not boot because the follwoing file is missing or corrupt:
| \WINNT\Config\System.sav
| I also tells me to run a Recovery using the CD-ROM, which I do. Then
| Win2k setup proceeds to recover, but I still get the same error after a
| reboot.
|

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