My PC at home running Win2K has completely crashed.
Whilst configuring rules on Norton Personal Firewall 2003 which I installed a week ago, my machine reboots itself, and when it gets to the Starting Windows black screen with progress bar down the bottom, it fails with the following error:
Disk I/O Error: Status=000010000
For troubleshooting and advanced startup options for windows 2000 press F8. Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\winnt\ystem32\config\system
You can repair this file by starting windows 2000 with the origination floppy or CD rom and press R to repair....
Starting up in all of the safe mode, Last Known Config gives the same error, but a little more info:
mult(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt\system32\config\system
DISK I/O Error: Status=000010000
mult(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt\system32\config\system.alt
DISK I/O Error: Status=000010000
I tried using the (Manual) Repair option using the windows 2000 CD Rom, but it can't detect my windows 2000.
I also Tried Recovery Console, but all it gives is
Doesn't respond to keyboard events, etc.(i.e. typing EXIT has no reponse). I had to press the restart button from my PC to restart. No Win2K paritions/drives listed
My partitions are set up as follows:
Primary Paritition
c:\ DOS FAT (Not affected)
Extended Partitions below:
d:\ WINNT NTFS
e:\ SWAP file NTFS
f:\ Application files NTFS
g:\ FAT32 Blank
h:\ FAT32 Blank
Firstly
1) Could I in anyway repair the file (Noting it can't fit in a single floppy disk, it's 2.9MB)
2) I have a Partition Magic 6.0 Boot Disk, according to it, by D: and f:\ drive have 0MB free space (I am surprised if even my f:\ is full) and worse still doing a check for errors returns a Critical CRC Error 45!! Partition Magic could not fix it (the fix button is disabled)
3) If I have to reinstall Windows 2000, what would be the simplest way for me to back up data under d:\documents and settings\ and some files I had in my f:\ (Noting that they are NTFS). Could I install a brand new minimum Windows 2000 installation on my g:\ drive (in which case would I get a new Win2K item in my boot menu?? At present, I have DOS and Windows2000 already). Then leave f:\ alone, copy the documents and settings stuff on d:\ to H:\ trash g: and d: and install Win2K on d: (would I still have 2 Windows 2000 on my boot menu at this stage?). Would NTFS DOS be any good at copying lots of files with long file names from d:\ to h:\ maintaining directory structure? I thought there used to be a version of NTFS DOS that lets you write to a NTFS Partition? Is that still available? Can't find it on google. Just wondering whether I could copy the system and system.alt file back to d:\winnt\system32\config
Whilst configuring rules on Norton Personal Firewall 2003 which I installed a week ago, my machine reboots itself, and when it gets to the Starting Windows black screen with progress bar down the bottom, it fails with the following error:
Disk I/O Error: Status=000010000
For troubleshooting and advanced startup options for windows 2000 press F8. Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\winnt\ystem32\config\system
You can repair this file by starting windows 2000 with the origination floppy or CD rom and press R to repair....
Starting up in all of the safe mode, Last Known Config gives the same error, but a little more info:
mult(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt\system32\config\system
DISK I/O Error: Status=000010000
mult(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt\system32\config\system.alt
DISK I/O Error: Status=000010000
I tried using the (Manual) Repair option using the windows 2000 CD Rom, but it can't detect my windows 2000.
I also Tried Recovery Console, but all it gives is
Code:
Windows 2000(TM) REcovery Console
The Recovery Console provides system repair and recovery functionality
Type EXIT to quit the Recovery Console and restart the computer
My partitions are set up as follows:
Primary Paritition
c:\ DOS FAT (Not affected)
Extended Partitions below:
d:\ WINNT NTFS
e:\ SWAP file NTFS
f:\ Application files NTFS
g:\ FAT32 Blank
h:\ FAT32 Blank
Firstly
1) Could I in anyway repair the file (Noting it can't fit in a single floppy disk, it's 2.9MB)
2) I have a Partition Magic 6.0 Boot Disk, according to it, by D: and f:\ drive have 0MB free space (I am surprised if even my f:\ is full) and worse still doing a check for errors returns a Critical CRC Error 45!! Partition Magic could not fix it (the fix button is disabled)
3) If I have to reinstall Windows 2000, what would be the simplest way for me to back up data under d:\documents and settings\ and some files I had in my f:\ (Noting that they are NTFS). Could I install a brand new minimum Windows 2000 installation on my g:\ drive (in which case would I get a new Win2K item in my boot menu?? At present, I have DOS and Windows2000 already). Then leave f:\ alone, copy the documents and settings stuff on d:\ to H:\ trash g: and d: and install Win2K on d: (would I still have 2 Windows 2000 on my boot menu at this stage?). Would NTFS DOS be any good at copying lots of files with long file names from d:\ to h:\ maintaining directory structure? I thought there used to be a version of NTFS DOS that lets you write to a NTFS Partition? Is that still available? Can't find it on google. Just wondering whether I could copy the system and system.alt file back to d:\winnt\system32\config