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Help Windows 2000 keeps getting corrupted !!!

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Chromeus

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HELP Me please .I just reinstalled windows 2000 yesterday After My system files got corrupted for some unknown reason (windows wouldnt start said the system files were bad?)
and I reinstalled hoping to fix the problem, ( I didnt a harddrives test and it passed)its on a maxtor 15 gig ata 66 frive <<<<hmmmm ,and today i got up and started my computer to finish my photoshop work and pooof! windows 2000 is dead again . the error message is as followsWINDOWS 2000 COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT :
WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMced for startup options please press f8.
I cant repair the install and noit sure if i want to if this is going to keep happening
this is the first time i have ever had a startup problem with 2000 but boy is it a bad one
My system is as follows
freshly built amd 950 tbird on an msi k7tpro 2 a mobo and 256 mb of pc 133 with a soundblaster live sound card
voodoo 3 3000
maxtor 15 gig ata 66 drive
sparkle power supply
windows 2000 sp1
and the updated drivers from the via web site for the chip set
i have been using the system fime for the past 2 weeks then it justed startede this yesterday ( i think it may be the harddrive but i ran the dianostics test from maxtor and it passed so i am not sure
ot it could maybe just maybe be a virus ?!?!?
any help would be great on this
fort it is indead a mystery
:disgust:
 
are you by any chance overclocking your system? A lot of times when it's overclocked errors like the one you described starts cropping up.
 
Your loss 😀
I heard there was a problem with write caching or something like that, where all the data wouldn't get saved to the HD before shutting down.....
 
As Viperoni has mentioned, there is some info floating around about systems that shut down too fast, causing corruption in the System hive of the registry because power to the controller gets interrupted before system settings have been saved.

For immediate recovery, the Recovery Console should be able to get you up and running. If it's not installed on the system drive, crank up the W2K setup CD. On the Welcome screen, press R. Then select C to get the Recovery Console. (This is where you start from the boot menu, if Recovery Console is on the hard drive.) Select which W2K installation (if you have more than one) you wish to repair. You'll have to enter the administrator password here. Then you issue these commands at the command line:

cd %SystemRoot%\system32\config

ren system system.xxx (or some such)

ren system.alt system.yyy (or some such)

Copy most recent file of %SystemRoot%\repair\regback\system or %SystemRoot%\repair\system to %SystemRoot%\system32\config.

Issue the Exit command to leave Recovery Console and reboot.

You will have to reinstall some software / device drivers / etc. if you have installed such since the date/time of the SYSTEM hive you're restoring.

But, from the sound of things, this will only get you up and running until the next corruption occurs. You need a patch or something to keep the bloomin' machine from shutting down before the drive has finished writing. This came up in other threads somewhere around here. I know I have seen info about the &amp;*^%&amp;$ patch SOMEWHERE, but I'm danged it I can find it. I searched the cotton-pickin' MSKB for this and just couldn't find it. (They really have to do something about the search facility there.)

I hope you get this sorted out. And, when you do, I hope you post how you did it so that others can benefit. As for me, all my machinery is too slow to need the patch. 😀

Regards,
Jim
 
My friend had the exact sae thing happen to him after he installed those Via 4in1 4.28 drivers, Do no install the IDE drivers from 4.28 or it will corupt your files. 🙁
 
well i found something else interesting about all this , i just finished a clean install on said system and found that for some reason the hdd in question is not detected properly in windows 2000 as a UDMA capable hdd and is setting it to transfer in PIO mode only
the MOBO is a Microstar k7t pro 2-a and the bios is set to auto but still no UDMA shows up in 2000 the hdd is a Maxtor 7200 rpm DiamondMax Plus 15 gig ATA 66 hdd I bet that has something to do with it ,Also i turned off the writeback caching on the drive just incase



thank to all for you help i know we can lick this
😉
 
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