Win2k - no boot ?

[PardeGT]

I am working on a machine I build for a friend a year ago or so. It main components are an intel D845PEBT2 / P4 2.4 / 512mb / WD 400jb and running win2k. It also had a Fujitsu 8gb hd he used as a ghost drive to back up on. It appears the Fujitsu is toast as it does not spin up nor is it detected by windows or drive diagnostics.

The problem is now it will not boot into windows on the WD drive. It gets to the splash screen, bar fills up and system reboots and continues this process. Even in safe mode it only gets a part way through its list of files it is initiating before it shuts down and reboots.

I've tried everything I can think of. It is stripped down to its bare components and I've tried different memory, different power supply (antec), cables, reseat video card (only card installed) with no luck. I went through windows fast repair and it does nothing either.

Owner doesn't want to lose all the data on the drive so I am trying all I can. I don't think I can reinstall win2k over the top without screwing it up since due to the condition it is in I cannot follow GLC's procedure.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Ob1]

do you have another pc that you could put the WD drive into and set it to the slave position in another pc to try and pull all the data off of it, then just stick the drive back into the owners pc and reinstall win2k.

[ric449]

When booting to safe mode, which file does it get up to before it reboots?

[glc]

Is the WD properly rejumpered? You can't use "master" if there's no slave present. Use CS or remove the jumper.

[PardeGT]

Thanks, I forgot to mention that I had pulled the jumpers.

On the safe mode boot the last line is:
...System32/Drivers/agp440.sys

I replaced the agp video card with a pci and in normal boot I now get to a a very quick blue screen before it reboots. I snapped a quick picture of the screen and it reads:

Stop: c0000218 (registry file failure)
The registry cannot load the hive (file)
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\Security
or its log or alternate
It is corrupt, absent or not writable

In safe mode boot I get to the same agp line as above.

Ok, so do I have any avenues without starting over?

[tempus]

can you get into the recovery console of win2k? otherwise i will suggest, as ob1 suggested, pull the drive and put it into another machine as slave and recover all the necessary data. Then reinstall win2k.

[ric449]

Of course there is a way to fix it. This problem points to a video driver Windows doesn't like.

Open recovery console. Type listsvc. Press esc, then after that type disable agp440.sys. type exit then press enter. When it asks if you want to start in normal or safe mode, select normal mode.

If all went well, you should now be looking at Windows in 640X480, since the graphics drivers are disabled. Uninstall the old drivers, and reinstall some new ones.

[PardeGT]

When I follow that this is what I get:

The registry entry for the agp440.sys service cannot be located.

???

[ric449]

Give this a go:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en