re: preventing SYSTEMced error
Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 9:04 am
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Posted by the ber
(68 messages posted)
thanks, dex. it looks like a weekend project, but i've got to try something. i'll
post back when i have some results.
On Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 1:46 pm, DEX wrote:
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>SYSTEMced
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>Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility
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>01/13/2004
>Registry Repair Windows Bootable CD SYSTEMced Windows 2000
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>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.
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>Solution Requirements
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>To create a Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility some programs and files are required:
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>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
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>Drive D: is a hard drive
>Drive E: is the CD-ROM drive
>Directions
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>Create 3 folders on drive D: named w2krepaircd, w2krepairfiles and temp
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>Create a subfolder named i386 in w2krepaircd
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>Download the files above to the w2krepairfiles folder
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>Unzip the contents of extrac21.zip, bbie10.zip, and cdrtools-1.11a12-win32-bin.zip
>to a folder that is in your path.
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>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
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>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
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>Change back to the w2krepairfiles directory
> D:\temp>cd\w2krepairfiles
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>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
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>Change to the w2krepaircd directory
> D:\w2krepairfiles>cd\w2krepaircd
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>Insert the Windows XP CD and extract the boot sector from it to the temporary directory
> D:\w2krepaircd>bbie e:
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>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
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>OR
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>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
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>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)
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> 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.
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>Get instructions on using the Windows 2000 Registry Repair utility from Microsoft.
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>Resources
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>Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56d3c201-2c68-4de8-9229-ca494362419c&DisplayLang=en
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>Windows XP Setup Floppy Disks
>Bootdisk.com
>OR
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=55820EDB-5039-4955-BCB7-4FED408EA73F
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>Barts PE-Builder
>http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
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>Bink.nu - Making a Bootable Windows 2000 CD with Service Pack Integrated
>http://old.bink.nu/bootcd/
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>Windows Network Mag - How do I create a bootable CD-ROM containing ERD Commander/Professional?
>http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/14732/14732.html
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>Bart's Boot Image Extractor
>http://www.nu2.nu/bbie/
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>Gilles Vollant Software - Extract
>http://www.winimage.com/extract.htm
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>Boot Disk from:
>http://www.bootdisk.com
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