Trouble Booting Up My Win2K Machine

[kanin247]

To Whom It May Concern:
Recently, my lil brother downloaded a Matrix screensaver and was showing it to me when my computer suddenly restarted. Unfortunately, my computer is now having trouble booting. I can't even run it in safe mode. It tries to boot up but stops after executing four files. Here's what comes up after I click on the option to run in safe mode:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\System32\ntoskrnl.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\System32\hal.dll
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\System32\BOOTVID.dll
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT\System32\config\system

and it just stops doing anything from here on. I haven't tried running an Emergency StartUp Disk yet because I haven't got one available just yet. I plan on making one when I get to work this afternoon. Right now, I am using my parents computer which runs WinXP. I am running Win2000 Professional. Also, when I try to boot normally, it gets to the screen "Starting Windows" (when the bars at the bottom of the screen run across) but the bars only move like 4 places.

Anyway, I would appreciate any help. Thank you!

kanin

 

[Krosus]

Sounds like your hd might have crashed out temporarily to me and corrupted the data on your drive, does the boot get to a chance to scan hd for errors? sounds like from what you said it doesnt.

If you get hold of a win2k cd try booting from it and using the repair feature to replace any damaged files.

 

[wolluf]

I'd try booting from 2k install CD to recovery console (

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;229716)

& then try running chkdsk.

If this doesn't do the job, try a repair reinstall. Boot from 2k install CD and choose NEW installation (NOT repair). It should find your installation and offer to repair it for you (type R to accept this). Now basically gores through install processs, but should leave data, settings and apps intact - loosed windows updates.

PS. Any other problems recently before this screensaver issue?

 

[wolluf]

PS. You can't make an Emergency StartUp Disk (ERD) on another machine for use with yours. It has to be produced on the machine it will be used with. Also, you can try the repair option (which asks for ERD), without an ERD. It finds the installation (where it can then pick up ERD material from hard drive) probably 50% of the time without ERD. This is where you choose repair, not new and then repair not recovery console, after booting 2k install CD.

 

[kanin247]

Krosus & wolluf,

Thanks for your replies. Krosus, no it doesn't get a chance to scan my harddrive. wolluf, no there were not any other problems before the screensaver issue.

I thought I could make an ERD from any Win2K machine. I guess not. Thanks for clarifying. Also, I will obtain my Win2K CD and try to boot from that instead and follow your repair advice. Repairing doesn't remove all the data on disk (i.e., my files) does it?

Thanks again for all your help!

kanin

 

[wolluf]

repair reinstall should leave data, apps & settings intact - need to reinstall windows updates. Other repair, if you choose the repair system files option will also need new windows updates. But I'd try the recovery console/chkdsk approach first (often solved booting problems for me), and its much quicker than repair reinstall.