system file recovery in W2K without Emergency Repair Disk?

[haardvark]

Can this be done? I am getting a BSOD to the tune of "unable to load device driver --- atapi.sys could not be loaded" The error code is c000026c if this matters.

I do not have a system ERD made up for this computer. I cannot boot in safe mode. No amount of fiddling with the bios settings has allowed me access to the computer. It gets through the white windows bootup screen and then shazam! ->BSOD.

I don't suppose I could make up an ERD on another W2K equipped computer?

Any advice on this one?

Thanks in advance to one and all.

Len

[Murf]

Microsoft provides a complete integrated drive electronics (IDE) driver stack that is capable of driving most IDE controllers. There are three system-supplied IDE drivers in the IDE driver stack: atapi.sys (port driver), pciidex.sys (controller driver), and pciide.sys (generic controller minidriver).

For W2K

In Windows 2000 and later operating systems, the IDE port driver atapi.sys became an independent driver that no longer links to scsiport.sys, nor to any other wrapper driver. In the IDE driver model for Windows 2000 and later operating systems, the controller driver that is below the port driver in the driver stack is split into a controller driver and a controller minidriver.

Ok, so what fix my problem.....

On another machine YES

Create a new set of Windows Setup floppy disks by using the WINNT32 /OX command in Windows or the WINNT /OX command in MS-DOS. The Winnt32.exe and Winnt.exe files are located in the I386 on the Windows CD-ROM.