Can't boot up W2k, blue screen HELP!
This is a discussion about Can't boot up W2k, blue screen HELP! in the Windows Hardware category; I uninstalled the drivers for my ORB disk drive and restarted. Windows found the ORB drive when I booted up again, and started to install the drivers. Something went REAL bad, causing the system to power off.
I uninstalled the drivers for my ORB disk drive and restarted. Windows found the ORB drive when I booted up again, and started to install the drivers. Something went REAL bad, causing the system to power off. I powered back on, and window would boot till the status bar was 1/2 way up, then I get a blue screen stating that windows failed to load and that I should run CHKDSK.
I use an old Win98 boot disk to get into DOS. That's all well and good, but I can't run CHKDSK from DOS! I can't find CHKDSK or SCANDISK on the C: drive or in the windows folder. I never made a W2k boot disk because my little brother keeps stealing all my floppies.
HELP!!! Is there any hope???
I use an old Win98 boot disk to get into DOS. That's all well and good, but I can't run CHKDSK from DOS! I can't find CHKDSK or SCANDISK on the C: drive or in the windows folder. I never made a W2k boot disk because my little brother keeps stealing all my floppies.
HELP!!! Is there any hope???
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8) DON'T USE ANY DOS BASED SYSTEM SCANNER ON WIN2K!!!!!!!!! 8)
Have you tried running the repair option or booting into safe mode?
FYI: the Win2k repair option: boot off the Win2k CD, select repair instead of install. Use the options that don't need you to find the Win2k install or use a repair disk.
Also, does the BSOD name any files in it, like a .dll or .sys file?
Have you tried running the repair option or booting into safe mode?
FYI: the Win2k repair option: boot off the Win2k CD, select repair instead of install. Use the options that don't need you to find the Win2k install or use a repair disk.
Also, does the BSOD name any files in it, like a .dll or .sys file?
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Thanks for the help, but I stumbled thru it this morning. I made windows 2000 boot disks (all 4 of them!) on my 486/66 sh!tbox and ran the recovery thing.
Booted up and windows and uninstalled, reinstalled the orb drive. %@#$@!!! it did it again! Went thru the 4 disks again, cleaned the HD, and ran the recovery thing again.
All is well now.
Moral of the story: Never uninstall ORB drive!
Booted up and windows and uninstalled, reinstalled the orb drive. %@#$@!!! it did it again! Went thru the 4 disks again, cleaned the HD, and ran the recovery thing again.
All is well now.
Moral of the story: Never uninstall ORB drive!
I've heard of problems with the ORB drives.
You don't necessarily need to make the 4 boot disks, but they are helpful in the case that you can't boot off a CD-ROM.
You don't necessarily need to make the 4 boot disks, but they are helpful in the case that you can't boot off a CD-ROM.
OP
The reason I tried reinstalling the Orb drive drivers is because I wanted the system to be able to boot w/o an orb disk in the drive.
When I had 98, you could do this, but it would hang for a few minutes during boot.
After upgrading to 2000, I discovered the machine had no problems booting with an empty Orb drive.
After installing Photoshop 6 (from the backup on my Orb drive), W2k would hang indefinately if the disk wasn't in.
Strange, huh? Think it might be a registry entry?
When I had 98, you could do this, but it would hang for a few minutes during boot.
After upgrading to 2000, I discovered the machine had no problems booting with an empty Orb drive.
After installing Photoshop 6 (from the backup on my Orb drive), W2k would hang indefinately if the disk wasn't in.
Strange, huh? Think it might be a registry entry?
OP
Fixed it... it was a registry entry.
