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Missing files from a repair boot disk in 2k

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I tried twice to make a Emergency Repair Disk using 2k w/sp2 installed and keep getting missing files in the boot disk when I try to boot from it.

 

IFSHLP.sys

System\VMM32.vxd

and something about a name of a windows loader.

 

Any ideas?

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Are not these files legacy file system and memory management drivers from Win98?

I am almost sure for IFSHLP.sys and VMM32.vxd (VXDs are typical Win98 device drivers). Win98 definitely needs them to boot.

These files may be needed for some legacy dos/win operations to start repairing the W2K install.

You may want to grab the files from a Win98 cd or an existing install, put them on your repair disk and see what happens.

Maybe they are also somewhere on the W2K cd.

Just a thought smile

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I was told in another forum that this is a backup disk of files NOT a boot disk.

As far as Win98 files, this is in a 2k system, clean install. NO 98 at all!

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Sure, I understand it is W2K clean-install and that it is NT.

The point is that these files does not seem to me to be NT specific at all.

*.VXDs are legacy virtual device drivers. W2K uses *.sys device drivers. Am I right?

Would it be that the repair needs DOS 7 drivers to do/start some of the stuff outside of NT on a badly screwed W2K install (read-write to disk, memory management...)?

If it is the case, then those files should be somewhere on the W2K cd install disk.

Was the HD freshly partitioned and formatted before the clean install?

Very interesting prob anyway smile

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