Windows 200 Pro keeps rebooting at startup

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holy_us

Hi,
I am running Windows 2000 professional on my machine (Toshiba notebook)
and suddenly the CHKDSK ran on the machine and it re-booted itself. Now
it keeps re-booting itself at startup over and over again followed by
the blue screen. I cannot start it in any of the safe mode options or
the last known good configuration. I have the recovery cd's from the
manufacturer, when I boot using those I get the message that the OS
will be installed and every thing on my hard drive will be wiped out
(i.e. no repair option).

How can I resolve this without having to re-install the OS? Any help is
appreciated.

Thanks
holy
 
I don't know how much good this will do, but from a parallel install, run
regedt32.exe, then from the Local Machine Hive, choose Registry|Load Hive,
then navigate to the
%systemroot%\system32\config
directory on the other install, and find the system file, then Open, in the
Key Name box give it some temp name, then under tempname, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Select
and look in the Reg_Dword value of "Current", this is the current
controlset, then navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet00x\Control\CrashControl
Where x = the value of "Current" (found above) and set the values as follows

"AutoReboot"=dword:00000000
"CrashDumpEnabled"=dword:00000001
"LogEvent"=dword:00000001
"Overwrite"=dword:00000001
Then navigate back up to "tempname" and choose Unload Hive, and boot your
original install, Autoreboot is now turned off so you should be able to read
the stop error.

Bug Check Codes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e..._f55acfed-3296-4e84-8885-c3162fd0ddbf.xml.asp

If nothing else you can at least recover your data from the parallel install
prior to rebuilding the operating system.

This article may also help you.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;266465


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| Hi,
| I am running Windows 2000 professional on my machine (Toshiba notebook)
| and suddenly the CHKDSK ran on the machine and it re-booted itself. Now
| it keeps re-booting itself at startup over and over again followed by
| the blue screen. I cannot start it in any of the safe mode options or
| the last known good configuration. I have the recovery cd's from the
| manufacturer, when I boot using those I get the message that the OS
| will be installed and every thing on my hard drive will be wiped out
| (i.e. no repair option).
|
| How can I resolve this without having to re-install the OS? Any help is
| appreciated.
|
| Thanks
| holy
|
 
To save your data, you have to copy the image of the hard drive to another
source, like an external hard drive using a utility like Ghost. Use your
recovery disk to rebuild the machine. Then when Windows is up and running
again, retrive your files from the backed up image using Ghost Explorer.

It's when you re-install Windows where you will find out if there's a
problem with the hard drive.
 
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