Hello
The history behind this problem is that over the weekend I started getting a systemd error when I would boot up my W2k Professional machine. I would get the following message:
Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMd startup options for Windows 2000, press F8
Well, I was stuck because I do not have an Emergency Repair Disk for this computer... so I posted a question on the microsoft newsgroups. Dave Patrick there helped me through quite a bit as I am a total novice when it comes to inner workings of Windows and DOS. After trying out a bunch of things the last thing I ended up doing was his suggestion of:
One of the suggestions was:
Failing all of this try;
(note: the files in \repair are the original as-installed copies of the
registry)
del C:\windows\system32\config\system
copy C:\windows\repair\system C:\windows\system32\config
restart for effect
Now when windows starts up..and I see the W2K graphic against the white background..and the progress bar is completed - I see a momenatry screen of some DOS-like commands (just a flash) and then the computer reboots itself...and then it goes into a cycle of this closing and rebooting...
I am looking at your suggestion above should the copy line actually be:
copy C:\windows\repair\system C:\windows\system32\config\system
the reason for that is because the first line mentions to delete a reference that ends in system - while the destination of the copy file ends only with config - I just thought the delete and the destination of the copy should be the same.
Any advice will be deeply appreciated and the first thing I will do is create the Emergency Recovery Disk!
The history behind this problem is that over the weekend I started getting a systemd error when I would boot up my W2k Professional machine. I would get the following message:
Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMd startup options for Windows 2000, press F8
Well, I was stuck because I do not have an Emergency Repair Disk for this computer... so I posted a question on the microsoft newsgroups. Dave Patrick there helped me through quite a bit as I am a total novice when it comes to inner workings of Windows and DOS. After trying out a bunch of things the last thing I ended up doing was his suggestion of:
One of the suggestions was:
Failing all of this try;
(note: the files in \repair are the original as-installed copies of the
registry)
del C:\windows\system32\config\system
copy C:\windows\repair\system C:\windows\system32\config
restart for effect
Now when windows starts up..and I see the W2K graphic against the white background..and the progress bar is completed - I see a momenatry screen of some DOS-like commands (just a flash) and then the computer reboots itself...and then it goes into a cycle of this closing and rebooting...
I am looking at your suggestion above should the copy line actually be:
copy C:\windows\repair\system C:\windows\system32\config\system
the reason for that is because the first line mentions to delete a reference that ends in system - while the destination of the copy file ends only with config - I just thought the delete and the destination of the copy should be the same.
Any advice will be deeply appreciated and the first thing I will do is create the Emergency Recovery Disk!