[ossint]

Failsafe boot to the first, failing, instance doesn't work. Blue screen again.

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That's unfortunate. I wanted to see if erunt could be used to possibly overwrtie the 2nd instance registry by using a back up of the first instance. Unfortunately, you would need to at least boot to safe mode using the first instance before erunt could attempt a backup.

Other than you trying the recovery console again, I am out of ideas.

I will defer this thread to the higher ups and hopefully they can find a solution for you.

Sorry again for not being able to do more.

makai

[makai]

That's unfortunate. I wanted to see if erunt could be used to possibly overwrtie the 2nd instance registry by using a back up of the first instance. Unfortunately, you would need to at least boot to safe mode using the first instance before erunt could attempt a backup.

Other than you trying the recovery console again, I am out of ideas.

I will defer this thread to the higher ups and hopefully they can find a solution for you.

Sorry again for not being able to do more.

makai

[Murray S.]

Howdy:

Go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management..

Now, click on "Disk Management" and either "Cut and paste what you see in the right side or ACCURATELY describe what you see!!

Murray

[ossint]

Sorry guys,

I gave up. Installed a fresh XP and will try to live with it.

[dsenette]

did you at least remove the other two when you installed the third?

[ossint]

did you at least remove the other two when you installed the third?

Sure, the HDD was actually reformateded. XP and W2K doesn't go together to well. There is a warningtext when installing XP. Sounds as an easy way out but it wasn't. The XP need more memory than I had (127 Mb). Which made the system very slow. My long trusted firewall from Symantec had to stand back for the built-in firewall from MS that came with the SP2. Still very slow compared with the performance of W2K Pro that I used before. Any ideas about this?

[dsenette]

get more ram?

[ossint]

get more ram?

Aha, will do. Thank you all for thew assistance