Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Registry fix for Windows 2000 server

It happened more than a month ago. We had a Windows 2000 server which would be retired. It crashed in the weekend. Most of the important roles were migrated. However, our diesel backup power generator connected to this domain controller. So, I have to get it back up and running because my manager cannot locate the monitoring software for the backup power generator.

I tried all the startup mode such as safe mode and it refused to boot with a bluescreen. Checked the backup logs over the weekend. Seems like the disk was bad. Eventually, I try the registry fix for Windows 2000. There is a warning some of the data may be lost when using the tool. However, we don't have any critical info. So we goto the following site to download the tool.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830570

We get it back up in 30 min.

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