Windows 2000 help

[wpresland]

Ok everyone,

Sorry if this is too OT, but I really need help.

I am writing this in my local library, because recently (don't ask) I deleted some drivers from my Home PC. Namely, the pci.sys driver.

Now I have no idea what this is, but I cannot do anything with my PC now.

I cannot even start it in safe mode, as this driver is necessary for this.

The microsoft website recommends using the Windows 2000 recovery disk you made...

Guess what...

I didnt make one...

Am I compleatly stuffed??? What can I do now??

I can get the original CD-Roms, if necessary. Will that do?

What do I do from there??

Please help, as I am limited to one PH session a day, in the library, and I'm getting withdrawal symptoms...

[MGv8]

What I did what set the PC to boot from CD.
Put XP in the drive and it should ask if you would like to fix or re-install. Try fix.
The other thing to fry is boot of another XP system with you HDD pluged in and move the files.
Hope this helps (more of a Unix man)

[wpresland]

I have windows 2000. Is this the same as XP???

[ninja_eli]

I have a dual boot Win 2K system, so give me a few minutes I'll have a look for you. If you can get to DOS mode then I can email you the file you are looking for and you can copy to the necessary folder via dos. Should then be okay. Or, as said before, you can reboot with CD Rom and repair your installation.

[miniman]

ninja_eli said: I have a dual boot Win 2K system, so give me a few minutes I'll have a look for you. If you can get to DOS mode then I can email you the file you are looking for and you can copy to the necessary folder via dos. Should then be okay. Or, as said before, you can reboot with CD Rom and repair your installation.

I don't think that W2K has a "DOS" system as such - you can't hit F8 during boot and boot into Command Prompt mode as you could with 95/98/NT

Booting from CD or setting up the knackered HDD as a slave device in another PC is probably the best bet...

[GregE240]

MGv8 is right - boot from CD, choose fix/repair and away you go.

Now you'll tell us you don't have the CD !!!

[ninja_eli]

Miniman, you are right, there is no dos from outside win 2k. You can hit F8 but it gives you other options (inc last known good configuration), one of which is "safe mode + command prompt", but guess what? It's still got to go into win 2k! Probably no use to our man here as he needs the file to access win 2k. Unless, of course, he has dual boot, as I do.

[neil_cardiff]

oops...

Reminds me of one of our users who told us that because he never used his c:windows and it was taking up loads space - he deleted it.

Cue one defunct pc...

[wpresland]

neil_cardiff said: oops...

Reminds me of one of our users who told us that because he never used his c:windows and it was taking up loads space - he deleted it.

Cue one defunct pc...

I'm not that bad....Well, not yet!