Re: can i reinstall my Win2K?

promicro wrote:

Hi

I can no longer boot my Win2K sp4, the erd and repair mode doesn't fix it; I can only boot from my floppy boot disk. I've replaced my boot.ini and edited them to see all of the drives and partitions with no success.

I would like to re-install the system over the existing system, so my question is: can I do this without having to re-install the service packs and additional installed software ??

thanks for all your help

rob

You say that you can boot from your floppy boot diskette, can you elaborate some more? If yo can properly boot the Windows 2000 installation with the floppy boot diskette then you should be able to copy the files Boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM & ntldr from the floppy diskette to the root of the system partition and you with the files in their proper location you should be able to boot from the hard disk. What happens when you try to boot with the hard disk?

If you can in fact boot properly with the floppy boot disk but not the hard disk then I think that one or more of the following may be the cause:

1- The active flag has been removed from the System partition. Use the Disk Management tool and verify that System Partition is "Active". You can also verify that with a Windows 98 startup diskette and fdisk.

2- The MBR is damaged, the code instructing it to read & execute ntldr is damaged. To fix this use the Recovery Console and run the FIXMBR command on the hard disk.

3- The boot sector of the active (System) partition is damaged and ntldr cannot be found by the boot record code. To fix this use the Recovery Console and run the FIXBOOT command on the System partition.

John

PS. If you reinstall Windows 2000 you will have to reinstall SP4 and post SP4 hotfixes, (unless it is slipstreamed to the intstallation media).

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