My boss gave me a Snazzi video capture card to install on my Win2K office machine, it didn't like the drivers and BSOD. Tried to get it installed anyway, and a few BSODs later, Win2K refused to boot up, complaining that WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM was corrupted! I couldn't even hit F8 for boot options!
I tried a bunch of things, including the rescue option with the Win2K boot disk, but it kept refusing to do anything without an Emergency Rescue Disk which I didn't bother to create.
Anyway, was about to give up but while prowling the hard drive in console mode, I found out that Win2K makes backups of its config files, so I overwrote the SYSTEM file with it's backup version and Win2K boots up again!!!
Lesson learnt: Always keep an up-to-date emergency rescue disk.
Knowledge learnt: Win2K keeps backups of some of its critical files.
atwl
I tried a bunch of things, including the rescue option with the Win2K boot disk, but it kept refusing to do anything without an Emergency Rescue Disk which I didn't bother to create.
Anyway, was about to give up but while prowling the hard drive in console mode, I found out that Win2K makes backups of its config files, so I overwrote the SYSTEM file with it's backup version and Win2K boots up again!!!
Lesson learnt: Always keep an up-to-date emergency rescue disk.
Knowledge learnt: Win2K keeps backups of some of its critical files.
atwl
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