Rikosuave11
December 31st, 2005, 01:43 AM
Hi Everyone,
I have the same problem on my pc as BigTex does on WIN2K (http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=514842#post514842). But i can't get as far as he.
I can't find my WIN2K CD so I don't have one readily available, (though i can have my brother mail me his) so i downloaded off a website the 4 floppy boot disks so that i could at least run setup of windows.
This is the link I got the boot disks from:
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
From there, i tried some online instructions utilizing Recovery Console, but ran into a problem.
I followed the instructions at the following link:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm
But at the final blue screen, when i hit C to enter recovery console, instead of it asking me which windows 2000 installation i would like to login to, and then asking for the administrator password, it just takes me to a command prompt directly. The prompt it takes me to is C:\>, not C:\WINNT>.
I type DIR, and see the directory WINNT. I type "cd WINNT" and i get
"The system cannot find the file or directory specified"
I try the code:
cd c:\winnt\system32
copy "..\driver cache\i386\ntoskrnl.exe"
but it says
"The system cannot find the file or directory specified"
When i try: cd "c:\winnt\driver cache\i386", i get the same thing.
But when i type "cd NVIDIA", (another directory I see on my C drive, it says "Access Denied", which i think it should.
So then i tried a repair installation, thinking it wouldn't be a big deal to lose the windows updates, etc. So i made a ERD from my dad's laptop which runs WIN2K Pro. I don't know if any other aspect of windows is the same, other than they're both 2K. And i tried a fast repair and a manual repair using the ERD and without using the ERD. (so 4 different tries). The steps i followed were at this link:
http://www.windows2000.windowsreinstall.com/
Each try ended with the same result. After i inserted the ERD, and pressed enter, or after i said i did not have an ERD, instead of saying it found windows 2000 in the following folder, it said
Setup cannot create the folder
\WINNT
Setup cannot continue until the folder is created
Press To Retry, Press ENTER
To quit Setup, Press F3
When i press enter, it does nothing, and i have to restart the setup, which takes me right back to where i started.
So it seems not to be seeing the entire directory WINNT. As stated, I'm just using 4 floppy boot disks to get into windows setup. So i guess my question is, does it sound like my system is more messed up than BigTex's, or do i need the actual Windows 2K CD to perform these operations.
I'm quite lost on what to do and any help would be appreciated. Thank you greatly in advance for your time and effort.
~Rick
I have the same problem on my pc as BigTex does on WIN2K (http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=514842#post514842). But i can't get as far as he.
I can't find my WIN2K CD so I don't have one readily available, (though i can have my brother mail me his) so i downloaded off a website the 4 floppy boot disks so that i could at least run setup of windows.
This is the link I got the boot disks from:
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
From there, i tried some online instructions utilizing Recovery Console, but ran into a problem.
I followed the instructions at the following link:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm
But at the final blue screen, when i hit C to enter recovery console, instead of it asking me which windows 2000 installation i would like to login to, and then asking for the administrator password, it just takes me to a command prompt directly. The prompt it takes me to is C:\>, not C:\WINNT>.
I type DIR, and see the directory WINNT. I type "cd WINNT" and i get
"The system cannot find the file or directory specified"
I try the code:
cd c:\winnt\system32
copy "..\driver cache\i386\ntoskrnl.exe"
but it says
"The system cannot find the file or directory specified"
When i try: cd "c:\winnt\driver cache\i386", i get the same thing.
But when i type "cd NVIDIA", (another directory I see on my C drive, it says "Access Denied", which i think it should.
So then i tried a repair installation, thinking it wouldn't be a big deal to lose the windows updates, etc. So i made a ERD from my dad's laptop which runs WIN2K Pro. I don't know if any other aspect of windows is the same, other than they're both 2K. And i tried a fast repair and a manual repair using the ERD and without using the ERD. (so 4 different tries). The steps i followed were at this link:
http://www.windows2000.windowsreinstall.com/
Each try ended with the same result. After i inserted the ERD, and pressed enter, or after i said i did not have an ERD, instead of saying it found windows 2000 in the following folder, it said
Setup cannot create the folder
\WINNT
Setup cannot continue until the folder is created
Press To Retry, Press ENTER
To quit Setup, Press F3
When i press enter, it does nothing, and i have to restart the setup, which takes me right back to where i started.
So it seems not to be seeing the entire directory WINNT. As stated, I'm just using 4 floppy boot disks to get into windows setup. So i guess my question is, does it sound like my system is more messed up than BigTex's, or do i need the actual Windows 2K CD to perform these operations.
I'm quite lost on what to do and any help would be appreciated. Thank you greatly in advance for your time and effort.
~Rick