re: preventing SYSTEMced error
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 1:46 pm
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SYSTEMced
Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility
01/13/2004
Registry Repair Windows Bootable CD SYSTEMced Windows 2000
Microsoft released the Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility at their downloads site.
The utility fills a void in my software toolbox I've been trying to fill for some
time.
There are ways to boot into the recovery console and fix the registry but there's
never been an easy way and they often don't work.
This utility has already saved more than one computer I administer.
The instructions provided with the utility require creating six Windows XP Setup
Floppy Disks and then running an installer that copies some files to the sixth disk.
To run the program you need to boot from the floppy drive and successively insert
each disk until you get to the last one.
The program then asks which installation to fix and hopefully fixes it.
I wasn't satisfied with loading six floppies to get the job done.
My toolkit only includes one blank floppy. Everything else I need is kept on CDs.
If I need a bootable floppy I have images on a CD that I can load to the floppy as
needed.
So I set out to figure out how to move the utility to CD.
I tried booting from a DOS floppy and running the program but it does not run in
DOS mode.
I also tried adding it to a Bart's PE-Builder CD but it didn't want to run there
either.
My last try was to run it from the recovery console but I had no such luck.
The six disks I had created were obviously some flavor of recovery console, which
can be booted from CD, so I turned to Google and started searching.
Solution Requirements
To create a Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility some programs and files are required:
Windows XP or Windows 2000 bootable installation CD
Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility
Windows XP Setup Floppy Disks
Bart's Boot Image Extractor
Disk Image file Extractor
CDRTools for Windows
Assumptions
Drive D: is a hard drive
Drive E: is the CD-ROM drive
Directions
Create 3 folders on drive D: named w2krepaircd, w2krepairfiles and temp
Create a subfolder named i386 in w2krepaircd
Download the files above to the w2krepairfiles folder
Unzip the contents of extrac21.zip, bbie10.zip, and cdrtools-1.11a12-win32-bin.zip
to a folder that is in your path.
Open a DOS prompt and navigate to w2krepairfiles
C:\>d:
D:\>cd\w2krepairfiles
Extract the boot floppies to a temporary folder
D:\w2krepairfiles\>WinXP_EN_PRO_BF.EXE /t:d:\temp /c /q
Change to the temporary directory and extract the contents of each .img file to w2krepaircd\i386
D:\w2krepairfiles\>cd\temp
D:\temp>extract -x *.img d:\w2krepaircd\i386
Change back to the w2krepairfiles directory
D:\temp>cd\w2krepairfiles
Extract the registry utility to w2kregrepair and click yes when prompted to overwrite
SPCMDCON.SYS
D:\w2krepairfiles>ChkReg.EXE /t:d:\w2krepaircd\i386 /c /q
Change to the w2krepaircd directory
D:\w2krepairfiles>cd\w2krepaircd
Insert the Windows XP CD and extract the boot sector from it to the temporary directory
D:\w2krepaircd>bbie e:
If you used a Windows XP CD for the boot image, copy 2 files from the CD to the current
directory
D:\w2krepaircd>copy e:\WIN51
D:\w2krepaircd>copy e:\WIN51IP
OR
Or if you used a Windows 2000 CD for the boot image, use these commands to create
the 2 files above
D:\w2krepaircd>echo Windows >WIN51
D:\w2krepaircd>echo Windows >WIN51IP
Create the iso image of the repair CD. This step can be done with Nero, EasyCD or
something else but this is burner software neutral. (This command should be all one
line)
D:\w2krepaircd>mkisofs.exe -v -N -iso-level 3 -V "W2KRegRepair" -b image1.bin -boot-load-size
4 -no-emul-boot -hide image1.bin -hide boot.catalog -A W2KREGREPAIR -sysid "Win32"
-o "d:\w2krepair.iso" "d:\w2krepaircd"
Burn the ISO with your favorite CD burning software. I use Nero at home and work.
Get instructions on using the Windows 2000 Registry Repair utility from Microsoft.
Resources
Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56d3c201-2c68-4de8-9229-ca494362419c&DisplayLang=en
Windows XP Setup Floppy Disks
Bootdisk.com
OR
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=55820EDB-5039-4955-BCB7-4FED408EA73F
Barts PE-Builder
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Bink.nu - Making a Bootable Windows 2000 CD with Service Pack Integrated
http://old.bink.nu/bootcd/
Windows Network Mag - How do I create a bootable CD-ROM containing ERD Commander/Professional?
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/14732/14732.html
Bart's Boot Image Extractor
http://www.nu2.nu/bbie/
Gilles Vollant Software - Extract
http://www.winimage.com/extract.htm
Boot Disk from:
http://www.bootdisk.com
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On Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 3:04 am, the ber wrote:
>i am running w2k SP4. last year i was getting many SYSTEMced errors at start up,
>so i wiped the pc and reinstalled everything. after a couple of months without trouble,
>the SYSTEMced error started coming back, to the point where it happens almost every
>day. i can clear the error and boot the computer by replaying an image using acronis
>true image (free version).
>i tried using the fix posted by microsoft, but it requires me to reinstall drivers
>for video, sound, and what all else. this for me is not a solution to the problem.
>replaying an image is faster.
>what i would like is a preventive solution to keep the SYSTEMced error from occuring
>at all, but i don't know what a "hive" is, and so on. can anyone point out what
really
>causes this error?
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