Re: I give in.

From: Mark Strelecki, ACP (be6-507@nospam.strelecki.com)
Date: 08/30/02 

From: " Mark Strelecki, ACP" <be6-507@nospam.strelecki.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:47:17 -0400

Hi, Robert -

My condolences on your troubles. There IS a way outta this.....

I would suggest Winternals' fine ERD (Emergency Recovery Disk) Commander.

It's a bootable CD that lets you work from a simulated Windows desktop to
perform diagnostics and repairs on "dead" or otherwise unbootable W2K
systems.

I've seen it in action and was amazed at all the cool stuff it can do.

www.winternals.com 

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Mark Strelecki,  ACP          BE6.XP1097.020817
Computing and Programming Since 1975
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is to fill our needs to be mad at something."
Paul Roussin, August, 2002
"Robert E A Harvey" <robertharvey@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:5acbdcbf.0208301207.78d2aa00@posting.google.com...
> We've got an unbootable W2000 system - The progress bar runs along the
> spalsh screen, and when it gets to the end the system reboots.
>
> OK, I've tried what it says in Knowledge Base Article - Q199175 -
> which doesn't help much.
>
> I've got the recovery console running, and wanted to rename the 'avg'
> directory in "Program Files".  But we don't have permission to cd to
> "Program Files".  I can go anywhere else, but not "Program Files".
> The recovery console's DIR listing shows "Program Files" as read-only,
> but Attrib says we cannot access it to change that either.
>
> I think we are stuck.  Of course, the wretched thing is a Compaq, and
> the only recovery option is to wipe the hard disk and re-install to
> 'factory' condition...
>
> Oh god, why don't people write applications for Linux?
>
> What would _you_ have done?

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