Win2000 apps install

[technidiva]

Ok, here is my issue and I would love if someone could help me with it!

I have a laptop running W2K. It blue screened on me and I was able to use ROxio Go Back to restore it. Now I want to run a OS repair on the laptop just to make sure that there are no corrupt files. I run W2K install disk and hit the upgrade option and it comes back with an error message "An application has not finished installing, please restart the system and let the application finish installing."

Ok,this application is no where to be found. I ran a virus check on it and it came up with nothing. I checked the event viewer and task manager and there was nothing noticable in there. I checked the processes in the task manager and didn't see anything listed. I checked out the Config.sys and the autoexec. bat and didn't notice anything unusual in there. I am running out of places to look for a halfway installed app! And this user doesn't remember installing any apps lately!

OK, short of wiping out this system (I don't want to do that yet) and rebuilding it... can someone help me out with some other options?

Thanks!
~T

 

[beerhunter2]

Change the Bootup device order in your CMOS to:
1) Drive A:
2) CDROM
3) Hard Drive

Insert you Windows 2000 CD, and reboot your computer. When it boots up, it will ask you to hit any key to boot from the CDROM device (hit any key to do this).

The Windows 2000 loading program should now start up. After it starts up, it will give you the option to Install Windows 2000 or Repair it. Select the Repair option. It will search to find all instances of Windows, and ask you which installation to repair. Select the one on the Windows 2000 partition (usually in the C:\WINNT directory).

Let the repair run, and hopefully when it's finished and you reboot everything works.

 

[technidiva]

Thank you beerhunter,

I had gone through that process,while it will see the old windows install it still gives me a message saying that the installation cannot be repaired.

~TD