re: Can't repair Windows 2000 Pro
Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6122 messages posted)
Either you have a HDD/hardware issue or the install is unrepairable/can't find the
old install folder etc. Windows can only repair if there is enough uncorrputed data/files
to merge/import into a new install, as that's how a repair install works. Windows
runs a clean install and then tries to import your data, drivers, programs and necessary
registry entries from the old install to the new one. If it can't find the old one
or the corruption is to bad, then it won't run a repair.
You will have to start over after trying to save as much data as you can from the
old install which means doing a parallel install on another HDD/partition/drive,
or slaving the old drive into another machine and trying access it to save data.
This link may help depending on what your source issues are:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318728
There are other possibilities but from a forum, it's tough to know without looking
at the machine.
On Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 12:45 pm, Hookani wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Don't know what the problem is but when I try to do a windows repair with the Win
>2000 Pro disk I get an error message something to the effect that it can't find
a
>Win 2000 installation. Anyone know what this problem is?
>
>Thanks,
>Ho'okani
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- Can't repair Windows 2000 Pro (Hookani: Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 12:45 pm)
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