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On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 9:57 pm, winston morris wrote:

>Win2kpro can't start (.........\Drivers\ntfs.sys error ) so tried a repair install. 

> Insatlled win2k into a new folder named WINNT.alt.  Afterwards I  installed the 

>OS to a different folder named WINNT2. 

>

>Boot to OS CD.  Accept EULA (F8), select R (repair).  Windows deleted files and 
then 

>copied files.  System rebooted, got windows 2000 GUI, with message at bottom saying 

> 'Windows 2000 is starting up'.  Black console screen then appears with message 
at 

>top saying  'Setup is being restarted........  '

>OS CD spin then stop.  Got greyish console screen which stayed on and setup didn't 

>restart.   Rebooted, went to win2k setup, repair console, and did chkdsk /r.  Restarted 

>and got same result.

>

>The hdd has two Windows folders WINNT and WINNT2.  The 1st has a lot of folders 
and 

>files like a normal system.  WINN2 has only 2 folders, system and system32.  system 

>is empty, system32 has folders config, drivers, os2, ras and spool.  os2 has a dll 

>folder which is empty, spool has a drivers folder which is empty.  The other system32 

>folders are empty.

>Should I delete WINNT2?

>I don't see the WINNT.alt folder that was created.  Why can't Win2k Setup restart? 

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