Windows 2000 installer repair

Insert the other floppy disks as prompted by the system. You will eventually see a screen that gives you a choice of either installing Windows XP or repairing the existing installation. Select the Repair option. Once you select the Repair option, the Windows Registry Repair Utility will attempt to repair the corrupted registry and will display whether or not the registry repair was successful.

If the registry repair was successful, you can remove the floppy disk from your drive and boot the system as usual. Originally posted by mere24 i am on the new set up but stuck. Click to expand Rick, Thanks a bunch! It worked and all my files are there! So I found the CD with the file and went on easily. I am so happy I didn't lose anything. Thanks for your help! It was easy with all of the steps to follow.

I saved money for a tech to come and visit! Now I have only 1 minor problem. All files are still there but I cannot connect to the Internet. When I try to manually set up a connection, it won't let me do so. And everytime I restart, a msg tells me to go to the control panel and configure some stuff but I don't know what it wants me to. Any thoughts? Thanks, Meredith. I run the Internet Connection Wizrd and try to install a new connection.

I choose the set up my connection manually selection. When I get to this next screen the first 2 selections won't allow me to click on them for Connect using a dial-up modem. The only one that it selects is connect using a broadband connection. How do I allow the dial up modem selection to be chosen when it won't let me? Can Anyone help? Originally posted by RyonanGT one question here You can also install the recovery console to your PC and have it show up as a boot option.

CLick Start and select Run. Nice work Rick, well done. Install Recovery Console to boot menu It's a sticky thread too. I'm going to try and make a floppy linux distro that can read ntfs and burn cds When installiing a new mobo into a computer that already has windows installed will always be problem matic. Assuming that you have enough free hard disk space, you can always install a second copy of Windows NT and use this copy to fix the original copy.

However, using this process can really put your skills to the test if you need to do anything more than just basic file manipulation. Fortunately, Microsoft understands just how hard life can be.

In this Daily Feature, I'll discuss the Recovery Console in detail and explain how to use it to fix various problems. What is the Recovery Console? The Recovery Console is a utility that's built into Windows This utility allows you to boot a PC containing a damaged copy of Windows to a command line.

From the command line, you may accomplish such tasks as enabling and disabling services and manipulating files, even if they're stored on an NTFS partition. When you see the Windows splash screen, close it.

We should warn you that the Recovery Console requires 74 MB of hard disk space. If your copy of Windows is already damaged and you can't install the Recovery Console in this way, don't worry. You could try a repair installation which should hopefully leave your data untouched.

Press R to do this. Then just follow the prompts. Windows will appear to be installing itself for the first time, but it will hopefully retain all your data and settings. I guess you should make sure you have your CD key handy just in case it asks for it. Pterminiator 3 Argentum. The answer no, you can not reinstall an operating system without data removal, otherwise for data purposes, you can run the installation over itself this will damage the registry , but will allow operation enough to save it until you perform a clean install.

I would recommend backing all data up to other media CD disks or DVD disks then formatting and reinstalling It would be a cleaner option this way.