Sorry to bother you guys again.
I have quite a bizarre problem with a dell poweredge 2500 server, running
windows 2000. The initial problem was that the system rebooted after the "NT
Authority System" initiated a shutdown (status code 128, the thing where it
counts down fron 60 seconds and cant be stopped) after this when attempting
to boot we got the Blue "STOP"
This series of events happened when a Dell powervault tape drive was
replaced with a newer model. My colleague then put back the old tape drive
exactly as it was, but the system still would not boot, however this time the
error was (and still is), "Windows 2000 could not start because the following
file is missing or corrupt:<windows 2000 root> \system32\ntoskrnl.exeplease
reinstall a copy of the above file"
I tried fixing it using the windows repair console, but it didn’t work,
I have now done a parallel install of win 2000 on a different partition and
it boots ok to this, but when I browse the system on “C:†I find that there
are files missing from WINNT and that WINNT\SYSTEM32 is a completely empty
folder!
Also I found that if I run CHKDSK it causes a blue STOP screen. I suspect
there may have been a virus,as its doing such strange things, but cant rule
out hard drive failure. Any Ideas?
PS I have searched through old backups and found a copy of “system32†is it
wise to copy this to c:\winnt and try to boot?
I know the obvious fix is to Reinstall the operating sysyem, but we have no
useable backups, and im told it would be a nightmare to re-setup the domain
and mailboxes etc and I hope there might be a way of getting the existing
installation working.
Regards
Andrew
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