Is it possible to uninstall XP Pro and reinstall Win2K?

[moreno441]

Hi.
I'm having a serious problem on a workstation regarding Win2K.
It's twofold but here's some history.
I was running 2k pro when I wanted to fix a problem with Windows not populating Install/Remove programs correctly. The solution Microsoft provided advised to do a upgrade to Win2K. That's when it all went wrong because at some point the machine couldn't read from the disk and stopped in the midst of the installation. I couldn't get into the machine so I installed XP pro a longside the corrupted Win2K. If I try booting up W2K this is what I get:
Entrypoint not found in DLL ADVAPI32.dll after that I get another screen saying
C;\WINNT\system32\Isass.exe statuscode 128.
Is there a way to either uninstall XP and reinstall Win2K pro *or* reinstall Win2K.

I'm sorry this is so longwinded but I'm really getting desperate because it's a workmachine with critical files I can't afford to lose.
Thanks in advance
Alfred

 

[JLSigman]

Have you tried running a repair install of either OS? This may get you something long enough so you can get those files off the hard drive and onto the network or floppies. Jennifer Sigman
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[mithrilhall]

Boot up the computer and get into the bios. Change the boot sequence so the computer first boots off of the CDRom. Put in your W2K disk and reboot/exit bios screen. Install W2K off of the CD and just reformat the HD and create your new partitions. ====================================
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[JLSigman]

I believe he's trying to avoid formatting the hard drive, since he said, "...it's a workmachine with critical files I can't afford to lose."
Jennifer Sigman
Code-borrower extraordinaire
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[comfysofa]

Another approach would be to remove the disc stick it on the back of another machine to recover your files -then rebuild from scratch?? Just a thought

Andy Turner
Sys Admin

 

[mithrilhall]

Yep, put it in another machine as a slave, remove what you need and rebuild. ====================================
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