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You can install another copy of an OS in the same partition, but MS warns
against doing so. For example, WINDOWS1 and WINDOWS2 on C:\ isn't advisable,
if that's what you did.
The not booting problem is most likely a corrupt NFS, which is why the OS
asked if you'd like to try a repair. The CD drive won't open during booting,
intentionally.
Most of the disk failure/backup stuff that I've seen posted recently can be
obviated by simply running RAID1--2 disks mirroring (each other) and
automating incremental backup to another computer. Imo, not doing so with a
critical app is kind of dumb if I may say so. Not trying to be
offensive--just emphasizing a time-tested practice.
Here's how to recover your situation reasonably quickly. Pop in a new disk,
and jump the old disks to slave mode. Install a basic OS on the new disk.
Download runtime.org's recovery tools. With a bit of reading, you'll learn
their recovery paradigm, and you should be able to get everything running
again in about 1-3 hours, even if the old disks have failed, but still spin.
Good luck.
Colin West
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Guess [mailto:mguess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 2:51 PM
To: Jimmy; Omega-List
Subject: Re:Hard Drive failure somewhat off topic
At 11:18 PM 9/25/2004, Jimmy wrote:
>Friday I heard funny sounds most of the day.
Hi Jimmy!
Don't know if it's in the stars or what, but my OS got hosed AGAIN (2nd
time in 2 weeks), even tho I installed a new, parallel WIN2k OS on the
drive and reinstalled many (not most) of my apps again over the past days.
I noticed things were running somewhat slower, and the HD's were spending a
LOT of time accessing. Not sure if having the corrupt old OS still on the
disk had anything to do with it, but I was going to either rename or delete
it anyway.
I never got that far, as I totally shut down my PC Fri after the Close,
then went to turn it on Sat morning when it got as far as the Starting
Windows progress bar. Then it said it couldn't start Windows because the
following file is missing or corrupt:
"\WIN\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM" (actually if there's more it must've gotten
truncated, since another sentence seems merged with this message,
saying "...anced startup options for Windows2000, press F8. You can
attempt to repair this file by starting Windows2000 Setup using the
original Setup floppy disk or CD-ROM. Select 'r' at the first screen to
start repair."
I tried to use my CD to repair things, but the tray wouldn't open. Figuring
an electrical problem I rocked the connector a few times. No luck. So I
started again from a cold boot. This time the tray opened & I inserted the
CD. It didn't start running for some reason, and didn't even when I
rebooted with it in the drive. I don't know what to do here, as I really
hope this will fix things. It's currently set in the CMOS to start after
the floppy drive and before the HD.
Also, I'm stumped as to why this OS issue even happened. With a brand new
Install of my OS things should've been OK. Yet, I'm having problems again
(not exactly the same ones as I posted about before, but somewhat related).
I sure hope someone can help out on this. I'm really getting desperate.
Thnx again,
Michael Guess
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