Installing TCP/IP in NT...

[Demon-Xanth]

Prolouge:

NT4 system was up for many days and 0 backups or emergency recovery disks available. Power blinks and the software hive is hosed. IS department is 600 miles away and wouldn't help much as it is. After using an out of date emergency recovery disk NT was up with the exception of a few OEM apps, Outlook and a database program.

After verifying the computer's name was correct and clicking "ok" to get out of the network control panel screen (no settings were changed) I was prompted with "windows must restart to make changes in effect". About this time I was wondering the same thing you probably are right now (WTF?). After rebooting the networking was shot to hell. I found the netcard's drivers and TCP/IP module was no longer installed.

After some banging around I got the netcard drivers to reinstall (it kept acting like the install process was going normally, but nothing would happen).

TCP/IP will not reinstall because it claims the TCP/IP keys are already there and will not install over them.

Problem: How do I blow out the old TCP/IP keys so NT can reinstall TCP/IP?

 

[nasty]

The error you are recieving is a known bug in NT. Check the MS knowledgbase. It happened to me once before. Good luck on restoring your data.

 

[nasty]

The error you are recieving is a known bug in NT. Check the MS knowledgbase. It happened to me once before. Good luck on restoring your data.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

all the data is there, NT is backup (albeit not completely), only problem is networking being broken.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Note: it was fixed by doing a search on Google after MS's own search engine failed to come up with results that were in the least bit relevant.

 

[Sunner]

Happened to me a million times(well not really, but ye get the idea), do what nasty said and check out the KB.
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