Win2K will not boot - cpqarray.sys file corrupted

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Alice - 31 Jan 2008 20:38 GMT

Not sure if I have (or made) a boot disk back in 2002 when PC was new. Best
method for getting the machine to boot? No screen display, no GUI, no
command prompt, etc. when choosing Safe Mode. Recovery console no help. Last
known good config no help. On Win2K SP4 --- did Windows update about a week
ago for critical and Win2K fixes only. Apparently there are issues with
keeping Win2K updated? Thanks.

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DL - 31 Jan 2008 20:46 GMT

By not boot do you get no bios screen?

You can boot from the win2k cd and repair the installation

> Not sure if I have (or made) a boot disk back in 2002 when PC was new.
> Best
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> ago for critical and Win2K fixes only. Apparently there are issues with
> keeping Win2K updated? Thanks.

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Alice - 31 Jan 2008 21:20 GMT

If I do boot logging I see the files being loaded. The only thing I didn't
do this morning was look at the BIOS (F6, I think?). Otherwise, nothing
appears on the monitor, just black screen with Safe Mode wording but no
icons. No DOS window. I do see the mouse cursor in Safe Mode, but no GUI
icons, nothing happens when I press CTRL-ESC to get Start Menu. Thanks.

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> By not boot do you get no bios screen?
>
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> > ago for critical and Win2K fixes only. Apparently there are issues with
> > keeping Win2K updated? Thanks.

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philo - 31 Jan 2008 23:03 GMT

> Not sure if I have (or made) a boot disk back in 2002 when PC was new. Best
> method for getting the machine to boot? No screen display, no GUI, no
> command prompt, etc. when choosing Safe Mode. Recovery console no help. Last
> known good config no help. On Win2K SP4 --- did Windows update about a week
> ago for critical and Win2K fixes only. Apparently there are issues with
> keeping Win2K updated? Thanks.

That looks like the RAID driver for a Compaq machine...
first check your RAID bios to be sure the configuration was not lost.

If it;s ok you may want to try a repair install

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