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Win2k machine won't start up

M

Mears

Platinum Member

I just tried upgrading my copy of win2k to SP1. It looked like everything was going fine. It
finished installing from the update page and prompted me to restart. However, upon doing so it brought up an error message after my system info was posted about not finding ntoskrnl.exe No problem I thought. I just rebooted with my win2k cd and tried to repair through the DOS prompt.
I copied the ntoskrnl.ex_ from the cd and renamed it to ntoskrnl.exe and rebooted. This time it started loading win2k and it got to the splash screen and right when the status bar completed, my computer rebooted. I tried several times and still had this problem. I read on microsoft.com
that the ntoskrnl.exe was updated in SP1 so do you think that maybe my computer is rebooting because I'm using an outdated copy of it or do you think that I may be missing more files than just that. Please help...I have some cse projects on my c: and I really really can't afford to
reformat my HD and all my friends are really non techie so I doubt that they'd let me through my drive in their systems to copy my documents and such.

Someone mentioned that the ntoskrnl.exe may of needed to been extracted from the cd, but at the repair prompt there is a limited amount of commands and extract isn't one of them. Does anyone know how I can boot up into just DOS mode with the win2k cd since I didn't bother to make a boot disk or repair disk.

Anyone have any ideas on this problem?
 
I'd think it would be safe to try a repair install. Even if it didn't restore the system, it shouldn't disturb your data files. If you're FAT32, you could retrieve your data files with a win98 boot floppy; if you're NTFS you could install w2k on another drive and retrieve your data files.
 
Are you overclocking? You may be overclocking too high if that is the case, at least that's what happened to me. Also I would probably try and stick with the updated ntoskrnl file that you got from sp1.

Good luck.

 
What do you mean that happened to me when I was OCing too high? That the machine wouldn't boot or your install became corrupted?

I can't stick with the ntoskrnl.exe from SP1 because it was non existant. I checked before I copied the the file from the cd. Does anyone know how I can boot in regular DOS mode instead of using the console repair mode? I don't have a repair disc either. Anyone know if .ex_ need to be extracted or can they be copied and renamed? I always thought they were just backup files.
 
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