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re: Can't repair Windows 2000 Pro Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 4:15 pm Posted by C K (6157 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Can't repair Windows 2000 Pro Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 3:45 pm Posted by Steve Dunn (914 messages posted) Might be worth booting into recovery console (I'm assuming you can't boot 2k) and running chkdsk c: /p. For repair to work, needs to be valid 2k windows folder (usually \winnt). If you've filestore corruptions, they may prevent install detecting this folder (or some of its necessary contents). btw - why the repair - presumably problem, but more details might let us help more. 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum