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To: Nazbuster who wrote (3731)	11/26/1998 4:40:00 AM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Don't know if this will help you, but this is how I would proceed. It seems that the NT install on your drive is toast. I haven't had much success with repairing a damaged install, even with current emergency repair disks it is complicated, there are service pack issues, IE4.0 issues etc. You are going to have to reinstall NT but you probably want to try to get some of the data off of it before starting over. Because it is NTFS, the easiest and safest way is to put the damaged drive on another system running NT. Add it as a slave or second disk. You will then be able to boot NT off of the good drive and access the data on the damaged drive. If you don't have another NT system, you should add another new drive to the current system and do a fresh install of NT on it and then when the new NT is bootable and running, add the damaged drive to it as described above. If you are sure that the drive is OK and not damaged, you can do a fresh install on NT in a different directory. I wouldn't try this if you suspect that the drive is indeed damaged or failing. It is also possible to boot NT from floppies if only the boot files are bad. You can create one with the following files. It needs NTLDR NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI. This URL describes it. support.microsoft.com You can search the MS knowledge base for other articles on NT Boot and Boot.ini etc. There are some other good articles in there on parallel installs and emergency recovery procedures etc. This is a good article even though it says it only applies to 3.5 support.microsoft.com Sorry for rambling, it is kind of late. Let me know if you have any questions, I'll check in tomorrow morning. Good Luck Dan

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