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This one's for you Spid!
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| ruscorp 2002-11-28, 4:43 pm |
| I got another whopper, this time at home. I built a new computer and gave my bro my old one, the hdd failed so I bought him a brand new WD 80GB hdd. He's used to Windows 98, however I installed Windows 2000 -- my OS of choice. 
Now he's the problem. I have no idea what in the world he is doing to make this happen, however this is the THIRD time it has occured. I get this error at Windows 2000 start-up saying:
"Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMc
ed Startup options for Windows 2000, press F8"
This is the THIRD time this has happenend. What in the world could he possibly be doing to cause this error? The 2 times before I just reinstalled 2000 and it was fixed however there has got to be a faster/better way. Thanks for your help. | |
| soccer4net 2002-11-29, 9:08 am |
| Maybe your brother is deleting system files :P
Have you tried replacing the file in question through the recovery console or restoring settings with your ERD? | |
| ruscorp 2002-11-29, 9:49 am |
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Originally posted by soccer4net
Maybe your brother is deleting system files :P
Have you tried replacing the file in question through the recovery console or restoring settings with your ERD?
ERD, good idea. Never made one for his computer. | |
| thecomeons 2002-11-29, 10:07 am |
| you really are born to fail. | |
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| The system hive in the registry may be damaged. As to what may be causing that, outside of something writing too much data to the System subkey in the registry, I don't really know.
I do know that the System subkey is designed exclusively for information that is necessary to boot the computer. Intel systems have a design limit such that 16MB of memory is available at this stage of the boot process. The System registry file has to share the 16 MB with the loader, kernel, HAL, and boot drivers.
Try this to see if you can fix it.
Boot up with the 2000 CD or startup disks and get into the Recovery Console.
After you log on to the Recovery Console tool, type the following commands:
cd system32\config
ren system system.old
ren system.alt systemalt.old
After this, copy the backup of the System hive from either the %SystemRoot%\Repair folder or the %SystemRoot%\Repair\Regback folder if you run the Emergency Repair Disk Wizard from Windows 2000 Backup and Recovery tools.
Now copy the default System hive:
copy c:\winnt\repair\system
Or to copy the System hive that was backed up the last time that you ran the Emergency Repair Disk Wizard:
copy c:\winnt\repair\regback\system
After you do this, type exit to restart your computer.
Regardless as to whether this works out or not. It's a lot of messing around. What I would do going forward is once you get his system up and running, increase the maximum registry size by an additional 16MB and then create a Ghost image of his machine. At least then all you've got to do is re-image his system if something else bad happens.
Good luck, I hope this works out for you. | |
| ruscorp 2002-11-29, 10:15 am |
| I'll give it a try tonight Spid, thanks a lot. I figured it was a registry problem. I found something in the MS Knowledge base, however it was for Server not Professional.
Thanks for the support thecomeons!  | |
| thecomeons 2002-11-29, 7:08 pm |
| no problemo. anytime you want a boost in moral just give me a call.
sucker! | |
| ruscorp 2002-11-30, 8:42 am |
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Originally posted by thecomeons
no problemo. anytime you want a boost in moral just give me a call.
Your Welcome
Pig fuk3r | |
| thecomeons 2002-12-01, 8:01 pm |
| squeak like a pig boy! |
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