Help!!! Windows 2000 constantly reboots at startup

[Rick974]

Here is my dilemma.

I have Win98 and Win2000 installed on a PII 350 that I've been running for about 2 months now.

All of a sudden Win2000 will constantly reboot right after startup without allowing me to do anything.

Win98 works fine.

I'm running FAT32 on all drives.

Anybody got any suggestions?

I'm trying to make bootdisks for Win2000 now so that I can try the repair option for Win2000 to see if that will fix it.

 

[Rick974]

Well, the repair option didn't do anything.

I'm completely stumped now.

Do I need to do a clean install or is there some way to fix this?

 

[Saltin]

The only time I've seen this behaviour, it was related to user profiles. I was copying some user's profiles from one box to another, and stupid me, I copied their ntuser.dat file over with them. It was late and I was hungry.
Anyhow, the boxes would just boot up, I would log on, and then it would restart.

Have you made any changes to the profile(s) on the box? It's a shot in the dark I guess

 

[Rick974]

No, I haven't used any different profiles, I just use the Administrator profile.

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

the only thing I can think of is to rewrite your mbr with a dos command from dos bootup: c:\fdisk /mbr

I have had that happen after a partition resize and restore with Nghost and Pmagic.

Otherwise, you know what.

This is the time you are glad you have you o/s on a small partition and it is cloned. Right?

Another idea is to make another partition on your hdd and do a second install of W2k. That may allow you some flexibility to repair files in your main W2k partition. Also it will allow you access to most everything already installed after you simply point to them.

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[Rick974]

Thanks Tom!

I used the fdisk /mbr command and it seems to be working now.

Just out of curiosity, what does the /mbr mean?

 

[Saltin]

MBR= Master Boot Record.