Re: W2K continually reboots (Just before log in) After updates?

OK - so I managed to get Bart PE working on the W2k machine by using another
OEM (I had forgotten about an old IBM laptop) for the Bart PE Build.

When I try to enter the registry editor I get the following error:-

The remote user profile located c:\documents and
settings\administrator.pc46\ntuser.dat could not be loaded

Does this imply this is corrupt?

I now intend to follow your suggestion of mounting on another PC and load
the system hive - but feel I may encounter a similar problem?


"John John" wrote:

I beleive that the IASTOR is a mass storage/RAID device driver (or a
SATA driver). You can't do registry work from the Recovery Console or
from DOS. You could do it by connecting to the machine over the network
or by mounting the disk in another Windows 2000/XP machine and using the
registry editor's "Load Hive" feature to load the System Hive of the
broken installation. If you do it with a Windows 2000 machine you have
to use Regedt32 to do it.

John

Wideawake wrote:

Managed to uninstall the last hotfix - using your suggestions, appears to run
the batch fine.

However does not solve the problem - machine still reboots continually
(incidently the update was KB931768)

Could residual information be retained in registry from this update? causing
the problem?

I followed your suggestion for Barts PE (after locating the registry editor
plugin) - interesting tool, however, I think I have a problem with this as
well!! I believe you can only build from a copy of XP :-

"Why can't Windows 2000/NT4 be used to build BartPE? Is there a reason for
this?

Yes, that kernel does not support the "/minint" switch and therefore cannot
boot from read only media... Also the layout.inf does not contain required
information"

I do have a versions of XP - but they are all Dell OEM (Pre-installed),
after the Barts PE disk is created, (which appears to be succesfull), if I
use on the W2k machine (Non Dell) I get an error relating to IASTOR.sys which
appears to be a dell driver.

Any other way of using a registry editor from recover console or DOS?

Thanks

"John John" wrote:


You can use a Bart's PE disk with a registry editor plugin to change the
auto reboot behaviour.

To uninstall hotfixes from the Recovery Console navigate to the hotfix's
spuninst directory and use the BATCH command to process the uninstall
routine. Example:

cd %systemroot%\$NtUninstallKBnnnnnn$\spuninst

(or simply: cd $NtUninstallKBnnnnnn$\spuninst )

then issue:

batch spuninst.txt

If the batch command fails try:

batch spuninst.bat

John

Wideawake wrote:


I have three machines experiencing the same problem - not sure if related to
recent windows updates.

These machines reboot just prior to windows log in.
They cycle endlessly - rebooting.

I think their "system failures" settings are set to reboot on system crash -
so I am not sure if a BSOD is displayed or not. That may give me a clue to
reason for crash.

My first step was to try to amend the "system failure" settings - but as
mentioned I can not boot into safe mode to amend , is there a way to amend
the system failure settings via recovery console?

Or does anyone have any other solutions?

My next step - would be to remove any recently applied updates, again via
recovery console? Is this possible? And would the updates be easily
identified? (As I do not have a list of all updates that were automatically
applied prior to the problem)

Thanks - sorry for multiple questions in one post!! (This is my first post)





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