Setup stalls - disk full?

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John Childs

I'm running W2K Professional. I had started to get "Disk
Full" error msgs, so I decided to defrag the disk. My
system response had gradually gotten slower and slower.

When I tried to run setup, I get stuck with alternating
msgs of "Loading Your Personal Settings" and "Saving Your
Settings".

So I next tried "Windows 2000 Advanced Options Menu" and
tried all choices on this menu including safe mode, but
eventually I wind up stuck with the two msgs above. I
may have gone too far to pull out of this one, but if you
have suggestions, they will be greatly appreciated and
I'll try anything.

The problems seem to have started when I somehow managed
to install two version of Windows 2000 Professional in
the same partition (WINNT and WINNT2), even though when
prompted to select my operating choice, I only get one
choice and that is "Windows 2000 Professional".

The system appears to be using WINNT2 and no way to get
back to WINNT.

Thanks,
John
 
You may be able to start the recovery console and delete the unused %windir%
(\winnt or \winnt2) to regain some drive space.

To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000
Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup
floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup CD,
use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy disks.
Press ENTER at the "Setup Notification" screen. Press R to repair a Windows
2000 installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The
Recovery Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do
not have the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the
computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the Recovery
Console quits and restarts the computer. Once the password has been
validated, you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access
to the hard disk. You can only access the following folders on your
computer: %systemroot% and %windir%
 
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