RE: [WinMac] Re: Reloading NT

John Hanks(jbh[at]bioserver.vsb.usu.edu)
Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:40:39 -0700

My first thought is to make new setup disks using different disks. If I had
a nickel for evey time a bad floppy caused an illogical error message....

jbh

John Hanks, Computer Specialist
jbh@biology.usu.edu
Dept. of Biology
Utah State University

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Dearden [mailto:pata@tampabay.rr.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:04 PM
> To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
> Subject: [WinMac] Re: Reloading NT
>
>
> O.k. here's one for you NT gurus:
>
> I have a dual-boot machine running Win98 and NT Server. 98 is
> on a FAT32
> partition and NT is on an HFS partition, meaning that they
> can't see each
> other.
>
> The copy of NT that I have is an evaluation copy. So it
> expired yesterday
> and I was told i could just reinstall it as if it were an
> upgrade. So I'm
> trying to do that. I boot into NT, run "Winnt32.exe /b" from
> DOS, it goes
> through its thing, reboot, then I get to choose the "Upgrade"
> option from
> the Boot.ini display, then it says it cannot find bootable device
> (meaning it can't see the CD-ROM) very odd unless it's replacing the
> drivers or something...???
>
> So I figure, o.k. I'm smarter than NT right? So I go ahead
> and redo the
> process, this time wihtout any switches so that it builds the
> bootable
> floppies. So I restart from the floppies, everything fine,
> asks me for
> floppy #2, as soon as I put it in, I get an error:
>
> "File SETUPREG.HIV could not be loaded.
> The error code is 4100
>
> Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit"
>
> What the hell is that? Setup Registry Hive???? I have no idea
> what that
> means.
>
> Anybody have any ideas? I would hate to have to format that
> partition and
> reaload everything, after it took me a long time to get everything
> working under NT as I wnated it (video drivers were a major pain)
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex Dearden
> pata@doglover.com
>
>
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