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BSOD on my main machine!!!

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Wiz

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Oh man, the power company just replaced the meter on my house and of course the power went out and back on for a couple seconds. My main machine is on a UPS but I guess the back up battery failed 🙁🙁
Now it is trying to boot over and over but it gets up to a point then goes blue screen and says that it cant load the software hive as it may be corrupt, absent or damaged then reboots.
I am so screwed! (besides there goes 5-6 seti WU's a day until I fix it).
And I can't even remember the last time I made a repair disk for the thing.
It's Win 2K server. THis is not fun.
 
🙁

If it were NT 4, you could try the "Last known good..." but I haven't booted my 2K advanced server in a couple months (amazing :Q) and forgot what it looks like when booted or whether it has that option...

Were there multiple partitions on the drive?
 
Thanks Poof, no just one partition. Win2K also has 'last known good' but it also does not work - gets to the same spot and goes Blue Screen. Cant load registry hive .../.../software
 
Gosh... Is that partition formatted for NTFS or FAT? If it were FAT, it makes it easier to boot to a floppy to at least recover stuff from the partition.

I know that many people running the server versions, create a separate system-only partition in FAT just for that reason... although the security aspects would be suspect...😛

There should be a way though, to get in and at least recover some of your data including those WUs...

🙁
 
Yeah, I guess I will need to start up a reinstall and try to do a repair.
I don't even remember if I made a repair disk though. I know it isn't current.
I can remember what my user name and password is so I will be able to get to the file system afterwared and then reinstall all software 🙁
 
You may want to make a couple partitions this time if you have to end up reformatting... 🙁
 
Exactly the trouble all righty. I have gotten it to the point of the repair screen but now it wants my ERD and I think I accidently wrote over it making the startup disks (when it rains it pours).
SO far I'm not having a very good day.
Anyone know if I can do anything from the emergency repair console? Can I make a new ERD from there? ANything else that might help?
 
Not for this OS. Win2K server SP1 NTFS disk with high encryption.
Now, can I do anything from the repair console that might help?
 
wiz - if it's like the repair option from NT server, then... 🙁

Been there done that enough times... 🙁

I think the repair disk has a copy of the registry and other ini files that it can use to try to come up again...

I'm surprised (although I shouldn't be, being a linux person and all) that it crashed that hard... Considering how many people claim that 2K never BSODs (although when I tried to install it the very first time on a SCSI drive in my dual Xeon server, I got an early initiation into the world of the 2K BSOD... 😉... needless to say, it's installed on an IDE drive now)
 
Well, I used the repair console and copied the old software file to the system32\config dir. At least now I have a working copy of Windows. I need to reinstall a lot of software cuz it's orhphaned now. Real fun day.
 
The old hives are still there, let me look for the path...

...\winnt\system32\config contains a recent copy of your hives.
 
Hiya HB - yeah I have the thing but don't know what to do with it.
First thing I did from repair console was to make copies of all the hives. Naming them to software.bak etc...
Trouble is when I try loading with the newest software hive it goes BlueScreen stop and says it can't load with that software hive. The repair I did copied the old software hive to the config dir.
 
The good news is that the setidriver is going again! Lost a couple units worth of time today but it could of been worse. 😀😎😀
 
A lot of software will run without being registered, I remember a few years back I had a machine that had almost nothing registered 🙂
 
Hmmm, I know I've done it with office '97, I was just checking out office 2000, they're sneaky about the short cut's somehow they hide it from the properties window. I'll see if I can dig out the executable. 🙂

Try executing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Outlook.exe
 
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