W2K installation

[164]

Help.. after reinstalling Norton my computer stopped working. I reinstalled W2K prof, because i assumed some crucial windows files were gone.. The installation stops halfway with a memory dump, and start over again... endlessly..
I tried safe mode,, but with the same errors..
What should i try.. of course, there are some very important documents and programs which are not on my backup yet..

Thanks

 

[wolluf]

If you've got access to another PC, I'd install hard drive as slave in that & backup my files. Then I'd try to do a clean reinstall. Its not obvious from your description if you've developed a hardware problem which is causing the dumps etc or its software - something you've done to your installation. Are you reinstalling on top of existing? Have you tried a parallel install (use a different windows folder, not \winnt)? Have you tried repair/recovery console?

 

[164]

Hello Wolluf,, thanks for your idea..
But... the pc is a notebook, can i get the harddisk to work as a slave on a workstation?
one idea i had is that diskspace is insufficient to update the installation. Currently there is 1.1Gb available.. (should be enough?)
To avoid disk space trouble i avoided the installation of a second win version.
As i am using NTFS i cannot use a win98 install to get my data? or can I?

 

[wolluf]

You can get IDE adaptor cables which allow you to connect notebook hard drives to PC motherboard (I fairly recently got one to rescue data from a dead school notebook) they're a few pounds here in UK. You can't install win98 as its ntfs partition. You could use win2k's recovery console (boot from win2k install CD and choose repair & recovery console - you'll need admininstrator password) to access data from its command prompt like interface - but presumably could only copy stuff to a floppy. Hope this helps.

 

[WhippingBoy]

you could try a parallel Windows NT 4.0 install to a different folder and then back up your data.

NT will load on less than 1.o GB. I have done this in the past for notebooks

HTH