re: Repair W2k
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 10:48 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5827 messages posted)
This is a typical folder that was copied to older computers that came from manufactures
that preinstalled the operating system at the factory. Most of these copied install
CD's, can't be copied to a CD and used for booting without some work and extra software.
There is a special process for making a boot CD. What is on your hard drive now
was made to run from the hard drive after booting with an appropriate floppy disk
or CD, either one you will have to make, or one from the computer manufacturer supplied
with the computer...
You should be able to click on the install EXE and it will start the install/repair
process. You will have to boot the computer from a bootable floppy or CD in order
to navigate to the folder and start the install process though. That's the tricky
part.
bootdisk.com may have a bootable CD image that you can make if you have the software
and a burner. If you have a floppy drive, they have floppy boot disk images that
you can download. If the hard drive is in the NTFS format, you will need the W2K
boot disks. If in FAT32, you can use a Win ME boot disk/floppy. It is best to find
out the procedure to use from the manufacturer of the machine though to be safe.
Other than that, you would have to follow the manufactures recovery/install/repair
procedures for your machine. They are all different IME..
Any repair will restore to whatever SP was originally installed so if it was SP1
(or no SP at all) for instance, you will have to reinstall SP4 and all releases after
that to get your system up to date. A pain to say the least...
On Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 8:15 am, Grace wrote:
>
>I found a folder in C/ "W2K repair" . Inside is a readme file, "Product Key"
>with 5 groups.
>In the same folder is a folder "W2k", 375Mb 6135 files, 183 folders. One file
>is "Setup" and leads to a "Microsoft Windows CD" box. Is it safe to follow the buttons
>and will the option to "Repair" be given? My O/S is SP4 plus any since.
>One comment has been that I must make a CD to boot it??
>
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- Repair W2k (Grace: Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 8:15 am)
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