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[xoymas]

Hy guys I need help badly. I have a new PC with 1.2Ghz,266 ram,win2000 professional. The system was working fine untill I started it today and I got a massage that said.
"windows 2000 could not start bacause the following file is missing or corrupted \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMced startup options for windows 2000, press F8"
I did not do any startup diskett. I did use a utility called registry clean to clean the registry. Any Ideas will be appreciated.Thanks

 

[branhamc]

I would guess that your registry cleaner has removed some important stuff. I have had the same thing happen to me before, and have had limited success trying to use the setup option to repair a windows 2000 installation. my guess is that the setup wont be able to find your install of win2k, and without an erd, you might be in for a total re-install of your os. i hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but unless someone has some great trick up thier sleeve,you might be in for a long night....

 

[xoymas]

Well now I need to know how to reinstall win2000 again because all the options I chose pushing F8 didn't work. I hope you know how. Thanks

 

[Pete45]

Running Winnt32.exe installs or upgrades Windows 2000.

On the setup CD for W2K Pro in the I386 directory.

The syntax of the Winnt32 command is as follows:

winnt32 [/s:sourcepath] [/tempdrive:drive_letter]
[/unattend[num]:[answer_file]] [/copydir:folder_name]
[/copysource:folder_name] [/cmd:command_line]
[/debug[level]:[filename]] [/udf:id[,UDF_file]]
[/syspart:drive_letter] [/checkupgradeonly]
[/cmdcons] [/m:folder_name] [makelocalsource]
[/noreboot]

See more detailed explanation at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...echnet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/Default.asp

Look in the left pane - Products & Technologies\Windows 2000 Professional\Product Documentation\Windows 2000 Professional Getting started\Chapter 3 - Advanced Setup under paragraph Customizing Setup(Chapter 3)

You can make boot disks by using your W2K CD. Look in the BootDisk directory on the CD and launch Makebt32.exe. Have 4 clean, formatted floppies ready.

 

[xoymas]

Thank you for the responce and I will try it.Thanks