I was loggin off of Win2K (from my admin account) and I get an error along the lines of "pagesile.sys missing or..". Great I think, and then the system hangs. What to do? I reboot. Can/'t boot: "Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or currupt:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMced".
I can't do a repair from the CD, can't find a WINNT install. Repair disk doesn't help, I didn't make one. I even tried making on manually by moving the hard drive to my other Win2K maching and copying the install.log (or whatver it is on there) to another repair disk.
A KB article says to change to system32\config and play with system.* files (and the main system file). Those muct be the "hive" or main registry? I have none of them, no backup in my repair folder either. No regback. I have been procrastinating and have not made a ghost backup. I did manage to have CHKDSK run on the drive, about 1000 files were lost total. 200 or so were deleted by CHKDSK, and 800 were in directories that had to be moved to a found.000 folder (I managed to figure out where they go an move them, but no registry ("system" files.
Am I completely hosed?
I can't do a repair from the CD, can't find a WINNT install. Repair disk doesn't help, I didn't make one. I even tried making on manually by moving the hard drive to my other Win2K maching and copying the install.log (or whatver it is on there) to another repair disk.
A KB article says to change to system32\config and play with system.* files (and the main system file). Those muct be the "hive" or main registry? I have none of them, no backup in my repair folder either. No regback. I have been procrastinating and have not made a ghost backup. I did manage to have CHKDSK run on the drive, about 1000 files were lost total. 200 or so were deleted by CHKDSK, and 800 were in directories that had to be moved to a found.000 folder (I managed to figure out where they go an move them, but no registry ("system" files.
Am I completely hosed?