Operating System Gone Missing

30cm_mohawk_boy · 09-18-2005, 01:02 PM

i was wondering if anybody could help me out of a complicated mess.
somehow the files to my windows server 2003 operating system have gone missing
i want to reinstall it but i don't know how.
as soon as i try to start either one of the 2 windows server 2003 operating systems that i have installed on my computer it screws up.
on one of them it comes up with the loading screen thing and then goes blank after a while and no keys do anything. sort of like it is frozen.
when i try the other one it says that windows cannot start because the file <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe

any help would be wonderful and i would be very grateful.

Trizoy · 09-19-2005, 02:07 PM

Is there a reason you use win server 2003, and not like win xp home?

4W4K3 · 09-19-2005, 02:40 PM

If you still have the operating system's original CD's, pop them in and boot from them. run the recovery console and it should fix any missing/corrupt files that you have. im thinking that's the problem with the second OS you were talking about.

30cm_mohawk_boy · 09-21-2005, 02:46 PM

thankyou for that. unfortunately i don't have the original cd

i only have the files from it and i don't know how to make them into a bootable disk like i read that i had to.
but i am trying to track down another cd and when i do it should work.

the reason i am using windows server 2003 is because it was all i had and also because i wanted a server operating system (i have tried running apache on xp but i had a problem) and i also wanted IIS.

thanks once again

ciao

Kanduu · 09-22-2005, 10:57 AM

I'm not to familiar with WIN 2003, but if it's like XP. Try starting up in SAFE-MODE. Press F8 at start up and use the recovery consol opotion.

09-18-2005, 01:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
30cm_mohawk_boy New Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2	Operating System Gone Missing i was wondering if anybody could help me out of a complicated mess. somehow the files to my windows server 2003 operating system have gone missing i want to reinstall it but i don't know how. as soon as i try to start either one of the 2 windows server 2003 operating systems that i have installed on my computer it screws up. on one of them it comes up with the loading screen thing and then goes blank after a while and no keys do anything. sort of like it is frozen. when i try the other one it says that windows cannot start because the file <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe any help would be wonderful and i would be very grateful.

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09-21-2005, 02:46 PM	#4 (permalink)
30cm_mohawk_boy New Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2	thanks thankyou for that. unfortunately i don't have the original cd i only have the files from it and i don't know how to make them into a bootable disk like i read that i had to. but i am trying to track down another cd and when i do it should work. the reason i am using windows server 2003 is because it was all i had and also because i wanted a server operating system (i have tried running apache on xp but i had a problem) and i also wanted IIS. thanks once again ciao

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09-22-2005, 10:57 AM	#5 (permalink)
Kanduu Silver Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: England Posts: 108	I'm not to familiar with WIN 2003, but if it's like XP. Try starting up in SAFE-MODE. Press F8 at start up and use the recovery consol opotion.