Unable to locate Crash-Problem

[philgood 0]

Hello,

 

After reinstalling w2k pro for various times i don't know any further.i'm still getting an explorer error message after some time running a fresh installed system and after rebooting the system it comes up with an error during boot-up

 

"Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \winnt\system32\config\SYSTEMced "...

 

after some repairs advices from various sites including microsoft sites i got fixed it to come one step futher to get another error message during boot

 

"...could not start...because of following file...audstub.sys "...i also was able to fix this but got stuck at the next problem:

 

"...INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE..."

 

so i always tried to do a fresh install of windows 2000 to get rid of all these.please, any advices ?

 

i have a new seagate st3200822A 200GB harddisk which i checked now for 2 times for bad sectors with seagates own SEATOOLS.also i couldn't find any virus with a demo of KASPERSKY-ANTIVIRUS-PERSONAL.maybe i try another virus-scanner ?

 

i have the disk divided into 6 partitions (2GB for WinME, 5GB for W2k Pro, 5GB for WinME programs, 20GB for W2k programs, 30GB for backup purposes and >120GB for a ntfs partition for data.)

 

i first installed WinME and used the freeware XOSL 1.15 BOOT-MANAGER to hide the first system partition with ME on it.After installing windows 2000 i have to restore the overwritten boot-sector and everthings booting up fine through the boot menu.

 

i was also running an old >2GB QUANTUM Harddisk on the second controller channel as master for storing the virtual memory files of the two systems on two seperate partitions.one partion as NTFS and the other as FAT32, hiding the FAT32 partition for the Win2000 system and the NTFS partition for the WinME system through the boot-manager but stopped doing it for eliminating problem-sources.

 

please don't hesitate to state any comment, i think anything could be a hint to solve this...!

 

thanks.

 

[philgood 0]

Hi apk,

 

seems that i'm having luck finding immediatly one expierienced user or i'm just in the right forum.thanks for the quick answer.

 

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P.S.=> Question - Have you EVER successfully installed 2000 on this machine before? The reason I ask is, I have actually SEEN & USED systems that couldn't run 2000, period... apk

 

actually i ran this configuration successfully on this same machine before, excluding the second added harddisk for the page file and the winME partition on the first HD.

 

i'm actually backing up some data for erasing the whole disk and to start up from the scratch but i'm curious what could be the reason.i'm not very familiar with viruses but doesn't it sounds like one overwriting the MBR because i had to recover the 2000 system partition with administration tools after every crash and the last time it erased almost the whole partition table.i always did a reformat of the partition which holds the 2000 system before every new install to "wipe out" any possible virus.

 

does the windows installer an effective erasing of previous data including viruses or do i have to use additional software ?

any suggestions before i will re-configurate the harddisk ?

 

p.s. the SEATOOLS utility from seagate also checked the ram without reporting any errors. i don't know any details about the procedure, maybe i will have to try some other specialized ram-checker ?

 

greetings,

 

phil

[philgood 0]

@ apk,

 

some things more...

 

 

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Anyways... the diff. here looks to be the 2nd disk, or something to do w/ ME being online.

 

Ya know, it MIGHT be the fact ME is on there... NT-based Os' & 9x ones DO share some "common ground" in the C:\Program Files folder, & I know that when you install 2 diff. setups of say, 2000 or even XP?

 

shouldn't be the problem as i used a boot-manager during installing the systems so that both systems will be seperated as much as possible, they can't see eachother at all(hiding partitions)...i used also its own partitions for the programs for every system individually for backup reasons.

 

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Are you overclocking ANYTHING (videocard, CPU, or RAM) there? It matters

 

i WAS using overclocked values for videocard bus and memory timing but set it to his default values right after the first crash.

 

actually i'm running out of space backing up the data and there is another problem.new LG dvd-writer is having problems with writing and finishing CDs/DVDs.it's connected through a firewire bridge.did you ever heard of firewire bridges whose killing dvd-writers.it's my third LG writer on this bridge which starts having problems.maybe time for changing the manufacture ?!

 

cu

 

phil

[philgood 0]

@ apk

 

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(I am surprised nobody else has hopped onto this thread, but, we all have our lives outside of "The MaTriX" here...)

 

i'm working at it

 

 

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Aha, now THERE's a potential "tricky spot" - BootManagers! Which one?

 

i'm using the XOSL 1.15 boot-manager, because it's a free one.i like it nothing to complain.

 

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Anyhow, I will try to "stick-this-one-out" w/ you & hopefully? The usual will happen - You'll find it yourself, just by talking it out w/ me & others here...

 

really like you attitude...just entered here and reading through the interessting posts in this forum.

 

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...helps to talk things out, not just computer nerd stuff!

 

as i mentioned before, i'm working at it.

 

i just backed up all data and preparing to do a fresh install of w2k.

i noticed some corrupted rar-archives which i copied once from a fat32 to a ntfs partition and now vice versa.some "file header" problem, i noticed that the corrupted archives are lacking of a "archive" page under properties through right-click.WINRAR is saying: couldn't find files in archive.though i don't care much about this(already deleted them), i'm just interested in what i should mind when i'm exchanging data between partitions of different filesystems, i.e. fat32 - ntfs ?

 

phil

[philgood 0]

@ everyone interested in

 

i've done some parallel installations of windows 2000 now on the fresh partitioned and formated harddisk.

i did this under dos first but got problems to install a second windows 2000 installation on a logical drive on the extended partition.so i finally did a re-partitioning under the first installed w2k system to create more primary partitions.i know this is really basic stuff for you

 

i've not ran into any error again until now.so the investigation stops here.

 

thanks for support.

 

phil

[Wicked101 0]

Hi,

 

Everyone knows that they should not bother when APK is on a roll:) he always fixes a problem.

 

Personaly, I would not use WinME, I dont like it at all, if I had to have a older OS to run dual boot with 2000/XP I would use 98SE, I still think its better than WinME. I actually know of some Service Providers (I wont give any names) that refuse to even do a line test if you have "WinME" or "XP Home"

[philgood 0]

@ everyone

 

isn't there something like a global partition recognization for parallel installed windows 2000 systems ?

 

i was surprised to see that the last logical drive in the extented partition on my one and lonely disk, formatted as NTFS with 64k cluster size, wasn't automatically recognized by the other w2k installation.

instead it showed it as unformatted FREE SPACE.

luckily that i still didn't have files on it...

 

ever happened to someone here ?

 

phil

 

p.s. i hope that all this(see my other posts) doesn't lead to the hint that i could have a harddisk with bad sectors or something like that ? is scandisk a good, reliable choice for to test that ?

[philgood 0]

@ apk

 

got it solved.

 

the problem was that ONE W2k system wasn't still enabled for big drives.you know, that registry hack "EnableBigLba".it simply got confused adressing data to that partitions.

 

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I've NEVER tried to use clusters that large myself... are you doing that to minimize "cluster-slack" or just account for EXTREMELY large files?

 

i thought using it for large video files.

 

you're right, i'm just experimenting...time for being somekind of productive !

 

greetings

 

phil