2 installations of W2K on the same partition

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Heather

We have a machine that was infected with Blaster.
We tried to run SP4 and got the blue screen of death.
This was very early on before we had found out the fixt
to get around the blue screen errors.

The user had a lot of information on his hard drive that
we could not lose. We tried the ERD but it didn't work.
We decided that the only way to get around it was to do
an install but chose "leave all files systems in tact" so
that the data would be there.

Now he has WINNT and WINNT2.

The problem is, his hard drive is partitioned and he only
has 30MB left on C. He's trying to reinstall something
and it won't let him because even though he's trying to
put it on the other partition (e), it still wants to put
some files on C and there's not enough room.

How can I get rid of the bad install of W2K that is in
WINNT without rebuilding the whole thing from scratch?
 
Presumably the bad installation of Win2000 resides
in c:\winnt. You can either delete it outright, or do this:
- Rename the folder to C:\WinNT.bad
- Reboot the machine
- If all is well, delete c:\WinNT.bad

Some other observations:
- Seeing that hard disks are so cheap, you would have
been better off installing the new version of Win2000
on a spare disk and running the original disk as a
slave disk.
- Your user seems to lull himself in a false sense of
security, by keeping files "we cannot lose" (your words)
on the local hard disk. Any file that is valuable must be
backed up, without exception. You were lucky this time;
I suspect you may not be so lucky next time (and there
will be a next time, I assure you).
 
We tell people to use the server since it gets backed up
daily, but they don't listen. It's a real pain from a
tech support standpoint.
 
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