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BSOD on my Win2K server!

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Wiz

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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 can't even remember the last time I made a repair disk for the thing.
It's Win 2K server. Drive is one large NTFS partition and I have installed SP1.
When I try safe mode or 'last known good' it gets to the same place and goes blue screen again with the same error. Any ideas? Do I need to find my startup disks now?
 
did you try putting the win2k cd in the machine, booting off of it, and choosing the repair option? It doesnt need a emergency repair disk, it checks all major files.

BTW, so you are the one who stole my alias =]. I used to have that name on these boards, a looooong time ago.
 
I can't boot from that cd drive so I have to find my floppies. That is what I plan to do, I thought I'd check here first to see if maybe someone here had suggestions. (When in doubt check it out on Anandtech you know).
 
the mobo is an asus cusl2-c and I do have it set in the boot menu but it won't do it.
Maybe because it's an IDE cdrom? Whatever, it just doesn't work. SO I originally installed with the floppies, looks like I am going to be making new ones if I can't find the old ones too.
 
yeah, when I originally installed I tried a couple of them. Maybe I just don't have it set in bios correctly. I don't really mind using the floppies, it's just a pain making them.
 
I had the same problem when trying to boot from an IDE CDROM with my ABIT SE6. It turns out that under the IDE disk detection that particular port was set to none for IDE drives. The drive still works in Win2k along with my Zip drive.
 
Well I copied the old software hive to the winnt\system32\config directory from within the recovery console and restarted. I've had to reinstall a bunch of apps but things are finally getting back to normal (what a day).
My thanks to all who answered my distressing call out for assistance. It's nice just to not feel isolated when it all goes to heck.😀
 
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