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Repair Not recognizing win 2k

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gtjr921

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Aug 30, 2006
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My laptop keeps giving me blue screen of death when it tries to boot into windows 2000. The windows 2000 start up screen comes up and the blue progress bar shows progress then it shows the BSOD and reboots. I see the BSOD, but it reboots so fast I have no idea what the error message is.
I tried to boot into safe mode and I get the same exact thing.
I get the same if I try Last known good as well.
So I tried booting to the Win 2k CD running repair and it tells me it cannot find a win 2000 install.
However if I choose to
1. Install Win 2k (I did this for kicks) this tells me that there is another operating system installed do I want to still install this. I chose no Clearly it sees something is installed.
Since only win 2k is installed here that must be what It is seeing.
2. If i go to the recovery console it also sees my win 2k install it comes up and asks which installation do I want to recover It list it and says 1 (WinNT)

So why is the repair process not recognizing
my install so I can reinstall/repair the OS.
I have SP4 on this pc.
I tried running chkdsk from recovery console It did not show any errors, I also ran fixmbr and fix boot to no avail.
Thanks for the help!
 
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