Boot from the Windows 2000 CD and 'repair' the installation - should be
simple since you mad a repair disk.

Craig

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Carl
> Parrish
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 7:41 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Please HELP install question
>
>
> Okay so I tried to help a buddy out. He had A dual boot system Win 2000
> and Storm he wanted to get rid of Storm and change to Red Hat 6.2 (for
> work).
> So I make a recovery disk of his Win2000 but I don't make a backup cause
> - well cause I'm stupid. But the point is I wasn't really doing anything
> with Windows so I just left it. Anyway I'm doing the install I blow away
> all linux partitions and install Red Hat,  I set up lilo on his boot
> partition. All seemed to go well until I rebooted where the Storm
> version of lilo asks me which OS to boot into. I find that odd but tell
> it to boot into Linux. It tries to run but doing the set up I get a
> kernel error where is says it can't find INIT. Okay this is a problem
> I'm thinking but proably just somthing because the old version of lilo
> appears to be running so I boot up again and try to run Win2K. I get an
> error saying it can't find the Win2K os kernal (ntoskrnl.exe) Actuall
> error reads as follows :
>
> Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or
> corrupt:
> <windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe.
> Please re-install a copy of the above file.
>
> Okay so I put in the recovery disk. I take a look in the win nt dir and
> sure enough the ntoskrnl is still there. So I don't really belive it to
> be a kernal problem. I find though looking though the help files
> programs called fixboot and fixMBR. Thinking that certainly the boot
> partion tables or the Master Boot Record could be messed up. I first run
> fixboot (reboot) then fixMBR. no change. Hey has valuable not backed up
> infomation on his Windows partition does anyone know of a why I can save
> this without reinstalling all of Win2K?
>
> Carl Parrish
>
>
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