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Windows refuses to finish boot

by axell09 Feb 20, 2009 4:18AM PST

Hi!

I did a resize of my partition and now windows 2000 will not logon properly. the logon window is shown(auto logon) and after that it says that the pagefile is missing and how to correct that when I get in. I press OK But I never any further. The logon melody plays but nothing happens on the screen. After a minute it starts log off and then it logs on again. It is going in a logon circle.
Why?
I have linux so I can get in contact with the computer, but there are no other way to get into it since ther are no cdrom drive or floppy drive.
So can I do something via linux or is windows lost for good?

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by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Feb 20, 2009 8:06AM PST

A free IDE CDROM drive on Freecycle in my area. Why can't you add a drive to fix this?

And where is your backup of your system?
Bob

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by axell09 Feb 20, 2009 5:41PM PST

old laptop and it's hard to find the special drives for it.

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Sorry.

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Feb 20, 2009 11:12PM PST

But your post lacks detail. No make or model so I can't tell if yours used the usual or the unusual.

In short, you dug a hole and jumped in and dug some more.

Execute your recovery plan. That is, install Windows like you did before. Be sure to check Freecycle and ask for that drive.
Bob

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