Crash! Another fine mess I've got me into ;-)

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Red Fox

Hi Experts,

Over the past few days I have been building up my Win2K upgraded box with an
Intel D845GEBV2 board, Pentium 4 cpu and 1 GB of Kingston chips. I had most
of my progs installed and had applied SP4 and the Rollup. I had two tasks
remaining - upgrade the BIOS (yeah, I now know I should have done that first
<sigh!>) and troubleshoot the lack of audio. I was working on the audio -
inspecting the drivers etc - and not using a pickaxe ;-) - when the system
crashed. Sadly, this was just before I had made the ERD. If I had
anticipated that crash I would have re-made the ERD every few hours.

After the crash, it rebooted and showed the boot screen with options C: and
D:. C: was the installation I was working on when it crashed. D: was a very
basic installation of Win2K with no updates. It was my emergency "back
door." Choosing C:, it loaded the startup screen and, about 20 secs after
the progress bar reached the end, it rebooted and rebooted etc. I tried
various Safe Modes and the LKG but with no progress at all.

My experience was that I could get around the lack of an ERD at times and
Win2K would fix the boot setup, etc. So I set the BIOS to boot the CD but
when it arrived at the stage, where it might have fixed things, it could not
find the C: drive - only the D: Booting to that that drive I could see the
C: drive and all its files.

Can anyone rescue me from having to reinstall the C: installation again? -
about 5 hours of work probably.

TIA

RF
 
Red said:
Hi Experts,

Over the past few days I have been building up my Win2K upgraded box
with an Intel D845GEBV2 board, Pentium 4 cpu and 1 GB of Kingston
chips. I had most of my progs installed and had applied SP4 and the
Rollup. I had two tasks remaining - upgrade the BIOS (yeah, I now
know I should have done that first <sigh!>) and troubleshoot the lack
of audio. I was working on the audio - inspecting the drivers etc -
and not using a pickaxe ;-) - when the system crashed. Sadly, this
was just before I had made the ERD. If I had anticipated that crash I
would have re-made the ERD every few hours.

After the crash, it rebooted and showed the boot screen with options
C: and D:. C: was the installation I was working on when it crashed.
D: was a very basic installation of Win2K with no updates. It was my
emergency "back door." Choosing C:, it loaded the startup screen and,
about 20 secs after the progress bar reached the end, it rebooted and
rebooted etc. I tried various Safe Modes and the LKG but with no
progress at all.

My experience was that I could get around the lack of an ERD at times
and Win2K would fix the boot setup, etc. So I set the BIOS to boot
the CD but when it arrived at the stage, where it might have fixed
things, it could not find the C: drive - only the D: Booting to that
that drive I could see the C: drive and all its files.

Can anyone rescue me from having to reinstall the C: installation
again? - about 5 hours of work probably.

TIA

RF
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its only 5 hours and its worth the effort..

--
regards dave and katie the dbox and starview people in the uk !
http://www.dbox2repair.co.uk/
for all your dbox2 needs
we guarantee our work and only offer the highest standards.


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the_slay_er said:
its only 5 hours and its worth the effort..

--
regards dave and katie the dbox and starview people in the uk !
http://www.dbox2repair.co.uk/
for all your dbox2 needs
we guarantee our work and only offer the highest standards.
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I always believed it. You UKayers are nothing but slayers. Now I have proof
;-)

RF
 
Hi Experts,

Over the past few days I have been building up my Win2K upgraded box with an
Intel D845GEBV2 board, Pentium 4 cpu and 1 GB of Kingston chips. I had most
of my progs installed and had applied SP4 and the Rollup. I had two tasks
remaining - upgrade the BIOS (yeah, I now know I should have done that first
<sigh!>) and troubleshoot the lack of audio. I was working on the audio -
inspecting the drivers etc - and not using a pickaxe ;-) - when the system
crashed. Sadly, this was just before I had made the ERD. If I had
anticipated that crash I would have re-made the ERD every few hours.

After the crash, it rebooted and showed the boot screen with options C: and
D:. C: was the installation I was working on when it crashed. D: was a very
basic installation of Win2K with no updates. It was my emergency "back
door." Choosing C:, it loaded the startup screen and, about 20 secs after
the progress bar reached the end, it rebooted and rebooted etc. I tried
various Safe Modes and the LKG but with no progress at all.

My experience was that I could get around the lack of an ERD at times and
Win2K would fix the boot setup, etc. So I set the BIOS to boot the CD but
when it arrived at the stage, where it might have fixed things, it could not
find the C: drive - only the D: Booting to that that drive I could see the
C: drive and all its files.

Can anyone rescue me from having to reinstall the C: installation again? -
about 5 hours of work probably.

TIA

RF
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