Windows 2000 CD Repair Question.

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Mike Cox

If I use the Windows 2000 CD to do a Repair, will I have to re-apply
all the service packs? My Windows 2000 workstation boots, but I get
an error when I try to install a certain application, with a Windows
system dll (or something) saying it can't run 16-bit, but that app
installed just fine on all my other Windows 2000 workstations.

My basic question is will I have to do service packs again if I do the
Repair option? Also, would this work-around work: what if I take a
working file off another PC and put it in the system directory? I
could do something like take the hard drive off my PC that has the
problem and put it in as a slave in a PC that runs my app, and place
the file that works into the system directory of the hard drive that
was in the computer that barfed an error code when I tried to install
the app. Of course those PCs would have the same amount of service
packs installed.


Thanks in advance, please help because this is very important.
 
These may help.

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=292175

What an In-Place Windows 2000 Upgrade Changes and What It Does Not Change
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=306952


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:
| If I use the Windows 2000 CD to do a Repair, will I have to re-apply
| all the service packs? My Windows 2000 workstation boots, but I get
| an error when I try to install a certain application, with a Windows
| system dll (or something) saying it can't run 16-bit, but that app
| installed just fine on all my other Windows 2000 workstations.
|
| My basic question is will I have to do service packs again if I do the
| Repair option? Also, would this work-around work: what if I take a
| working file off another PC and put it in the system directory? I
| could do something like take the hard drive off my PC that has the
| problem and put it in as a slave in a PC that runs my app, and place
| the file that works into the system directory of the hard drive that
| was in the computer that barfed an error code when I tried to install
| the app. Of course those PCs would have the same amount of service
| packs installed.
|
|
| Thanks in advance, please help because this is very important.
 
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