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re: Restoring original W2k install
Friday, January 12, 2007 at 11:29 am
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Posted by Steve Dunn (925 messages posted)


You need a repair reinstall on the original installation (was that what you were 
trying to do?):-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292175&Product=win2000





On Friday, January 12, 2007 at 11:14 am, cmac wrote:
>Hi all, I'll try to make it quick. I ran a Mcafee virus scan, and deleted counter.cab,
>count.jar-F1901, and csrss.exe. On another board, not this on, it said to check REGEDIT
>and REGEDT32 for other instances. I did find csrss.exe and deleted it. Then on reboot,
>it gets to the last blue square of "starting windows" and then reboots itself. In
>the proces of trying to run W2k Repair from the CD, I installed another instance
>of W2k on the same c:drive. That new nstall boots up fine, but I do not have any
>of my old settings or programs. On reboot if I choose the 2nd W2k(original) I get
>the same problem of getting in a reboot loop. Is there any way to repair the registry
>on the original w2k install, from the new install that boots up? Or any way to associate
>my settings from the original install to work with the new install? Bottom line,
>I just want one instance of w2k, and would prefer to keep my setting that I had,
>so that all my programs work. Thanks in advance.



Written in response to:
Restoring original W2k install (cmac: Friday, January 12, 2007 at 11:14 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Restoring original W2k install (cmac: Friday, January 12, 2007 at 2:32 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Restoring original W2k install (cmac: Fri, Jan 12, 2007, 11:14 am)
-re: Restoring original W2k install (Steve Dunn: Fri, Jan 12, 2007, 11:29 am)
*re: Restoring original W2k install (cmac: Fri, Jan 12, 2007, 2:32 pm)
-re: Restoring original W2k install (DEX: Fri, Jan 12, 2007, 6:47 pm)
*re: Restoring original W2k install (cmac: Fri, Jan 12, 2007, 7:01 pm)
-re: Restoring original W2k install (cmac: Sun, Jan 14, 2007, 12:17 pm)
-re: Restoring original W2k install (DEX: Sun, Jan 14, 2007, 1:34 pm)
*re: Restoring original W2k install (cmac: Sun, Jan 14, 2007, 2:57 pm)
*re: Restoring original W2k install (cmac: Wed, Jan 17, 2007, 7:55 am)
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