Can't get in to Win2000

[Hilary]

I've got completely stuck.
foolishly tried a reinstall setup because I was getting a blue screen stop driver error on shutting down Win2K.
Something went horribly wrong, don't know where but first of all couldn't get in at all. Eventually managed to run a setup from a dos prompt (shift F10) from a gui window.
the new setup doesn't appear to have gone any better. 2 problems:

1. If I run straight into starting up Win 2K I get to administrator logon and get the message 'the local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively' -all the troubleshooting help I've found so far does not mention this problem applying to the Administrator!

2. If I try to get in any other way - F8 and choose any option or run the 4 setup disks I just get the 'NTOSKRNL.EXE is corrupt or....etc' message.

Either way I cannot see a way to break in at all - at no time do I get the chance to open up a dos prompt so I can't copy, edit or delete anything.

The computer does not have dual boot set up and Win2K is on an NTFS partition. It is not networked. I do have another computer running Win 98 but so far checking out the Win2K upgrade CD-ROM and the boot disks doesn't seem to offer any answers.

PLEASE HELP!!!! This is very urgent I have a load of work to get finished right away.

Hilary

[mhayes]

Generally speaking, any time I have received the NTOSKRNL message, prospects for recovery are almost non existent, that is to say that I have not been able to get the system stable again without a format and reinstall. Is there data on the drive that is a must have?

[Hilary]

Fortunately it was almost a new install and so nothing much to save, but I discovered it didn't need a format.

Found setup disk download at http://www.bootdisk.com which showed up an error on one of the setup disks I had and worked perfectly to run the set up. Just got to reinstall everything now, but that's a small price to pay.

Thanks

Hilary

[mhayes]

Glad to here. You are one of the lucky ones.