Recent content by freshmeat

Sad news: still no boot. In fact, after entering name and password at the login screen the system does its thing for about 30 seconds or so and then forces a machine hard reset. Any other options? thoughts? Is there a way to tell if it is a registry issue or a file system issue? If worse...

Smilin, Just curious, what tools do/did you use to repair the registry?

Hullo Smilin, I pasted the zip file there some days ago and sent you a PM at the same time... Have you looked at it yet?

Hallo again, Sorry for the hiatus, i was gone for the weekend. My Win2k machine is dual boot, so i just copied the system hive to the other drive. Do you want to see it (attached to a PM)? Is there a utility i can use to check it? Thanks again for all your help. Hopefully we will be...

Smilin: Is there a log file that userinit writes to indicating what it has done? Sianath: Got the batch file, thanks very much for taking the time to build it! Tried it. Output log indicated several files not found: Copying to backup directory - files not found: dt_ctrl.dll fcachdll.dll...

Sianath: Sent you a PM, but i think i forgot to username-sign it... Curious, is not being able to log in a typical (or default?) action when Win2k can't continue its boot process at that point? Are there any boot logs that might indicate more specifically what the problem is, or what the...

There's about 15 \winnt\$NTUninstall... directories that have the date 05/10/04 (last operational date), as well as several more with earlier dates. There's also a ****load of files in \winnt\ServicePackFiles\i386\, all of which have the date 07/22/02, which i presume was the original install...

Sianath: System was working perfectly fine. Windows update alert popped up, so i selected a few of the critical ones, then let it download and install them on its own. Came back and it had the 'finished installing updates, reboot' message, but i had to leave, so i hit 'cancel' and did a normal...

I dont mean to intrude, but i have the same original problem as cmyk: cant boot (Win2k Server) because winnt\system32\config\system is corrupt. The irony of it is, this happened on reboot after a seemingly successful windows update. Smilin and/or Sianath: Making use of your help with cmyk...