URGENT HELP! Windows 2000 won't boot! WHAT THE HELL?

Valhalla1

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My Win2k install has been 100% perfect for months now, not a single crash or BSOD, nothing! EVER.

Until now. I realized I hadn't defragged my Maxtor 40gb drive in a long time, so I ran defrag. It was taking way too long, and I needed to use my computer so I stopped it and exited. Well, for some reason the system was running slow and laggy, so I rebooted it. And upon reboot (and subsequest 10x reboots), I get BSOD:


Stop: 0x000000 kmode_exception_not_handled Address 805064b base at 804000000 - ntoskrnl.exe



What happened? Why did blowing off defrag kill my Windows? There is NO WAY I can go without the data on that drive, I might as well go jump off a cliff if I lose all 40gb of that. Please, please.. anyone have hope for me?
 

RSI

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I have no idea... sorry :(

I cancel scandisk and defrag all the time (and hit reset whenever the hell I feel like it), and I never have problems.. (W98, not 2K)
 

HaVoC

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First off, calm down. Then try to reboot in safe mode and see if it comes up. Some file apparently got corrupted in the defrag process. It might be able to boot into Safe Mode and then you can run surface scan on the HD to see if anything went awry.

You may not be able to fix the problem, but worse-comes-to-worse, you can repair the win2K installation. You will have to reconfigure win2K and reinstall all of your programs, but you won't lose any data files.
 
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actually I know what the problem is.
The defrag program is a licensed copy of Executive Software's Diskeeper 5.0 or older.
Basically NT 4.0 doesnt come with Defrag so you buy a 3rd party software to defrag.
Anyway this is what happens - this idiotic program when it defrags likes to put the read data that is to be moved to memory and stores it that. Now if you stop it or it crashes, the data is in memory and is lost after that. THe program doesnt write to another location and then move it back to its new location, but it writes to memory and then write to a new place.

You have to RE-install.

Sorry mate.
 

Valhalla1

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fu*k! Safe mode did the same thing, I'm trying to repair the installation now. I guess I'll never ever ever try and defrag that sh!t again
 

Valhalla1

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NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!


Fu*k Fu*k Fu*k Fu*k


I can't even reinstall windows!!! it gives the same damn BSOD!!!

 

Valhalla1

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please, someone tell me the drive isn't fried.. someone tell me how I can fix this... please
 
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umm.. dont do an upgrade.. do a fresh install over the old install.
That way you wont use the old drivers.
Also, take out cards that are not needed before install.. to minimize risk of BSOD.
 

Thor_Sevan

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Just simply install win 2000 over your corrupted windows files. Then boot and see what really happened. Maybe you lost some windows important files but not for u since you reinstalled. If everything works great after the install, then everything should be ok.

If after the install you notice some strange directory names like dir00012.000, look what is inside them and manually rename them to what you think it should be. If you notice some files are missing, reinstall the programs affected. If you lost some personnal files (word, excel, photoshop, bmp, mp3, etc,etc...) then... well... I hope (we) its not that !:)

Anyway, don't pannic !! :)

Thor !
 

kat5iv

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sounds like you are fu*ked man.. take the drive and put it in another puter, and back up the files off of it and format. sorry :( i drfagged win2k once, and it never worked right after it, not to mention the drive was only like 1% fragmented after 4 months of use.. oh well :( ended up reformating anyways.
good luck,
- Jason
 

Dennis Travis

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Have you tried booting from the Windows 2k CDROM? If You can do that get to the repair option and see if that fixes it. It should in most cases.
 

Valhalla1

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well, I tried repair, and it BSOD'ed during install. I put another drive in, installed win2k on it, and put in this messed up drive as slave, so I could salvage my data from it, and it made a bad loud clicking/whining noise.. :( I'm so pissed
 

rew

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hehe anyhoo... if your fs is ntfs you can boot to the command console, run chkdsk /r if that doesnt work, boot from the cd and try to repair the installation. if that doesnt work either, and your fs is fat32 find a buddy with a hd and win98, slap yours in as the secondary, copy whatever info you want, then format yours.


rew

p.s. buy a burner
p.p.s make backups, chief :)