What files are needed in a Win2000 boot disk

[Olias]

I installed Win2000 on my C: partition using NTFS and there are no other OS's installed. I had to first format with Win98 so as to get the system to boot and allow me to install from E:\i386. After Win2k was installed, I had the duel boot menu so I disabled it in the system startup so as not to display a list of OS's. Here is a list of the NTFS boot drive...

Volume in drive C is BOOT_DISK
Volume Serial Number is 5C59-47E7

Directory of C:\

11/03/2000 11:03p <DIR> Documents and Settings
11/03/2000 11:00p <DIR> Program Files
11/03/2000 11:38p <DIR> RECYCLER
11/03/2000 11:02p <DIR> System Volume Information
11/03/2000 11:20p <DIR> WINNT
11/04/2000 01:16a 217 boot.ini
11/03/2000 02:34p 78 BOOTLOG.PRV
11/03/2000 02:35p 78 BOOTLOG.TXT
11/03/2000 02:35p 512 BOOTSECT.DOS
05/11/1998 03:01p 93,880 COMMAND.COM
05/11/1998 03:01p 222,390 IO.SYS
11/03/2000 02:30p 6 MSDOS.SYS
07/21/2000 07:05a 34,468 NTDETECT.COM
12/06/1999 06:00p 214,416 ntldr
11/04/2000 07:39a 201,326,592 pagefile.sys
10 File(s) 201,892,637 bytes
5 Dir(s) 4,486,388,224 bytes free

My question here is... Do I have files in my root directory that are left over from the Win98 format and can I safely remove them?

Thanks for any and all help on this topic, Mitch

 

[Hyperchronismos]

COMMAND.COM and IO.SYS as can be seen from their date (1998) are not Win2K files.

 

[Olias]

Sorry that my topic header is misleading. It should say &quot;What files are needed in a Win2000 boot partition&quot; and not &quot;disk&quot;. My guess is that I don't need...

boot.ini
COMMAND.COM
IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS

...but I'm not too sure? Also, what is this new <System Volume Information> directory?

TIA, Mitch

 

[Dulanic]

12/07/1999 06:00a 148,992 arcldr.exe
12/07/1999 06:00a 162,816 arcsetup.exe
11/01/2000 07:35p 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
11/01/2000 01:30p 192 boot.ini
11/01/2000 07:35p 0 CONFIG.SYS
11/04/2000 09:18a 200,843,264 hiberfil.sys
10/26/2000 03:43p 0 IO.SYS
10/26/2000 03:43p 0 MSDOS.SYS
11/01/2000 11:00p 34,468 NTDETECT.COM
12/07/1999 06:00a 214,416 ntldr
11/04/2000 09:18a 301,989,888 pagefile.sys
11/01/2000 07:58p <DIR> RECYCLER
10/26/2000 03:48p <DIR> System Volume Information

Thats all my hidden files.....

I have NO idea what hiberfil.sys is.... wait yes I do.... Hybernate files. This is from a install of 2000 about 3 days ago.

 

[owensdj]

Olias, you definately need to keep the boot.ini file. Here is a list of Win2K files in C:\ that you need to keep if they are there:
arcldr.exe
arcsetup.exe
boot.ini
ntdetect.com
ntldr
pagefile.sys

Keep the System Volume Information folder as well.

 

[Olias]

Thanks guys but I don't have the &quot;arcldr.exe&quot; and &quot;arcsetup.exe&quot; on my NTFS boot partition. I would like to run the manual recovery but when I use the Millennium boot floppy and goto i386\winnt, it tells me that it can't recognize my C: drive where Win2k is installed.

Any ideas, Mitch

 

[StuckMojo]

9x cant read ntfs

 

[owensdj]

Olias, you're using a Millennium boot floppy? Just boot from your official Microsoft Win2K CD. *Snicker*

 

[Olias]

owensdj, This time I booted from my official Microsoft Win2K CD and selecter [R] repair and [M] manual. The process indicated the it performed some kind of disk maintenance BUT... I'm still missing the &quot;arcldr.exe&quot; and &quot;arcsetup.exe&quot; files. How important are these files and what do they do?

Thanks a Millennium, Mitch

 

[owensdj]

Olias, that's a good question about those &quot;arcldr.exe&quot; and &quot;arcsetup.exe&quot; file. Those files where not in any NT 4.0 system I ever saw, so they're new to me. The ARC in their names stands for Advanced RISC Computing. I think those files are used on RISC hardware architectures like the Alpha procssesor during the NT boot process. Don't know why they would get installed on an Intel system. As far as my Win2K book says, those ARC files aren't even used during the boot process. If you don't have them on C:\, don't worry about it.