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New Oh, that one . . .
Generally that sort of message means the drive needs Checkdsk run. You boot on the CD and take "R" for recovery console to get to the C: prompt and run Chkdsk /f to make it mountable again.
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New Been there, done that
The problem is that the Recovery Console version of chkdsk doesn't support the /F option! There is this thing called fixboot, which is supposed to rewrite the boot sector of the disk. But that was, of course, ineffectual.

Looking at the rest of this thread, it seems that there may be a difference between choosing Recover before the install (and working your way down to the Manual Recover option heap) and selecting recover after selecting Install. Is this correct?

For the record, selecting Recover before the install option, then selecting either the Recovery Console, or the "other" option (don't remember its official name, but it eventually lead to the choice between "Fast Recover" and "Manual Recover") and doing the "Manual Recover" thing (which did eventually reinstall just about every DLL and EXE file associated with the system) was completely ineffective.

I did take another hard drive that I had previously put a version of W2K on, and reinstalled W2K on it from the CD on the machine with the new mobo. It seems to boot just fine, thank you. Which leads me to the following question: Could LBA be the culprit here? I don't recall how the old mobo BIOS was set up, but it's entirely possible that I had LBA turned off. On the current mobo, the BIOS has LBA set to Auto (which, according to the pamphlet manual for the mobo, means that LBA is used except for disks "not formatted for it".) Since these drives support it, and I haven't the slightest idea as to how one formats a disk for LBA (or against it, for that matter), it might be that Winduhs is trying to boot using it, but the disk doesn't know what the OS is talking about.

Of course, Knoppix can read (and write) these disks just fine. Which just goes to show: Linux is smarter than Windows. (But you already knew that....)
jb4
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New Thanks, Andrew!
In answer to my previous question, yes, there is a difference bewteen doing a "repair" before selecing Setup from the CD and selecting "repair" after selecting Setup. The latter triggers the Upgrade path in Win2K, which attempts to save as much as possible as opposed to savaging whatever is on your disk previously.

I'm back up now (mostly); there are still some things to partially or wholly reinstall (e.g. my Orifice 2000 installation was badly hosed), and I have to reapply my SP4 update, but at least I can boot.

Thanks again for all your help and counsel.
jb4
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Stephen Colbert, at the White House Correspondent's Dinner 29Apr06
New This is why Windows hasn't taken off on the desktop
Joe Average User is never going to be able to do this stuff. That's why everyone is still using DOS.


















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New Sounds like a great time
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     A funny thing happened on the way to replacing my mobo... - (jb4) - (17)
         apt-get install debian _________________________________ :-P -NT - (drewk) - (2)
             <raspberry>:-\ufffd</raspberry> Two problems w/ that: - (jb4) - (1)
                 Wrong on one, and missing two more - (drewk)
         I think Thane has addressed something like this. - (Another Scott) - (2)
             Only ever tried it with Win95/98/98SE - (inthane-chan)
             Assumes ability to boot into Safe Mode... - (jb4)
         There's a Repair Install possible. - (static) - (3)
             For W2K and XP . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
                 Doesn't it rebuild the device tree? - (static) - (1)
                     Well, any drivers you installed . . . - (Andrew Grygus)
         Oh, that one . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (6)
             Been there, done that - (jb4)
             Thanks, Andrew! - (jb4) - (4)
                 This is why Windows hasn't taken off on the desktop - (drewk) - (1)
                     Ooh, snarky! - (Silverlock)
                 Sounds like a great time - (pwhysall) - (1)
                     See the first reply in this thread -NT - (drewk)

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