Win98 to Win 2000 Professional, missing/corrupt file

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You could have easily replaced the corrupt system hive of the registry but
it sounds like you're way past that now. Recover your data from a parallel
install then start a new install.

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"Andromeda" wrote:
| Hi. We upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows 2000
| Professional about 3 years ago. We have had many problems
| since then. This being the most recent:
|
| After having been on my PC doing some work, I closed all
| files and let the PC go into stand-by mode. I noticed
| later that it had re-booted itself and was on a black
| screen. "could not load Windows 2000 Prof, the following
| file is missing or corrupt" \WINNT\System32
| \Config\systemced.
|
| I tried using the Windows 2000 Prof disc one to reboot,
| by pressing 'r' before the windows screen started to
| load. Never would work. So I rebooted using my Windows
| 98 startup disk. I am now stuck in Windows 98. I can see
| all of my files are still in there respective drives. We
| have partitioned our hard-drive into 4 partitions, it is
| a 120 GB's. I have reinstalled win98 to fix the corrupt
| or missing file, based on some advice from a programmer
| friend. I then attempted to reinstall Win 2000
| Professional, but at the very end, it says cannot update
| due to multiple Operating Systems.
|
| Is there any way to get back to Windows 2000 Professional
| so I can back everything up and move on to a clean
| install of Windows XP Home Edition?
|
| Any advice would be appreciated.
|
| Thank you,
|
| Andromeda
|