Have you tried repairing the master boot record? Using a boot floppy from a win 9x machine, boot the pc from the floppy. Run the command "fdisk /mbr" less the quotes. This should get you a new mbr which hopefully will let you boot and make any repairs or backups that you need to do.
Have you cleaned virus off machine? (was it a boot sector virus?)
When you say it won't boot - what's the message you get when you try?
Presuming you've got access to another 2k machine (or another machine & 2k install CD), format a floppy and copy ntldr, ntdetect.com - both in root of C: or on CD in \i386 - and boot.ini - also in root of C: to floppy. If no access to 2k machine, create a boot.ini using notepad or other text editor looking like this (assumes 2k on 1st partition of 1st drive):-
Or if you got the virus off or know were it is you can take a working mach and slave that drive to it and take off what you need. But, I wouldnt do this unless you know what virus it is and whats infected.
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