ISO Emergency Boot Solutions for Windows 2000 Laptop

Question

I have Windows 2000 on a D400 Latitude laptop issued to me by my office. In its infinite wisdom, my office does NOT provide users with Administrator access to these computers - best I have is "Power User" - and does not provide us with startup CDs or diskettes - at least not yet.

We travel for work with these laptops, mostly overseas, and I'm concerned that I could run into situation away from the office where I can't start Windows normally, but I might be able to fix it if I could start W2K from a CD or diskette(s). For example, some of our W2K desktops couldn't start normally but were fine after running CHKDSK by booting off another device - this service done by our IT contractor, but they won't be around when we're on travel.

Pending my office doing something about it (not holding breath), any advice on what I could do for such a situation? Any way to create removable boot media w/o having Administrator access and access to OS CD? I do own personally various versions of Norton Systemsworks (i.e., 2003, 2004, 2005) - could I use one of these CDs to boot and attempt emergency W2K repairs?

meryl_streep · Answer

you need to make yourself an Emergency Repair Disk: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=231777 as a member of the Power Users you should be able to create one. You'll also need a Windows 2000 CD. The OEM disk from Dell will be fine so if you don't have one you can purchase one through Dell for a relatively small fee.   Boot the machine with the Windows media choose R to reapir and then R to use the Emergency Repair Process.

DJG500 · Answer

Thanks for your reply. I've tried that approach on my work terminal some time ago, but it won't work w/o an OS CD, which I don't have. The laptop doesn't have a W2K OS CD because the laptop came with a different OS and my office overlaid all laptop hard drives with W2K and our program packages.

Since my posting, I tested the Norton Systemworks CDs to see if I could boot to them, but that didn't work. So I'm still ISO Emergency Boot Solutions.

meryl_streep · Answer

i feeling generous so if you send me an address in a private message and i'll send ya a Dell Win2k CD. i can help a brother out for .37 cents:smileyhappy:   it's only SP2 but you'll only need it to boot so it won't matter...

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ISO Emergency Boot Solutions for Windows 2000 Laptop

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