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| help: "loader error 3" when booting Windows 2000
My other system has suddenly developed a fatal boot problem (if this is the wrong newsgroup or there is a better one or some useful website for such cases please advise!) AT THE VERY END of the first bootphase (the text screen with the white activity bar at the bottom of the screen and still BEFORE the second screen with the Windows 2000 logo and the "based on NT technology" msg. appears the boot process is suddenly stopped and I get the following error message: ----------------------- Windows 2000 could not start because of an error in the software Please report this problem as : Loader error 3 Please contact your support person to report this problem. ----------------------- What does that mean and how can one fix this? None of the options "safe mode" or "last known to be good configuration" worked. I also tried to enable boot logging, but the "ntbtlog.txt" file that should be produced when this is enable is nowhere to be found... I still have another bootable partition on that system with a minimalistic Win2K installation from which I can access the faulty partition and do some manipulations, so once I know what that error means and what to do about it, I hope, that it will somehow be possible to fix this without reinstalling the OS... Michael |
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| Re: "loader error 3" when booting Windows 2000
A couple of suggestions: - Modify c:\boot.ini by adding the /SOS switch at the far end of your selected system line. - Search the MS Knowledge base for entries containing "Loader error 3". |
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| Re: "loader error 3" when booting Windows 2000 "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message news:ewgrT0uVDHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > "mmo" <michael.moser@freesurf.ch> wrote in message > news:edzLIotVDHA.532@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > ... > A couple of suggestions: > > - Modify c:\boot.ini by adding the /SOS switch at the far end of your > selected system line. I did that. I get a list of drivers loaded, the last one reads "...\drivers\agp440.sys". I copied that file over from a backup, but that didn't change anything. I still get this "blabla .... Loader error 3 ...." message. In case you wonder, why I am not simply copying the entire winnt directory over: I am trying to avoid that if I can since the backup is not exactly very recent... > - Search the MS Knowledge base for entries containing > "Loader error 3". I did (even before I posted here) and - would you believe it? - didn't find anything useful! I had expected some list or summary re. all possible loader error numbers (preferably with some description what might cause them and how to fix it), but - nada - nothing! Other ideas? Michael |
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| Re: "loader error 3" when booting Windows 2000
When answers can't be found on Microsoft.com, I always search Google and saw this, posted on microsoft.public.win2000.setup by a Mr. Nigel Wynne about this exact problem he was having... Apparently he found the solution himself: --- Just if anyone is interested: - To solve the problem 1 Backup user data 2 Boot with 2000 CD 3 Boot to Console 4 Used FIXBOOT 5 Reboot Everything OK |
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| Re: help: "loader error 3" when booting Windows 2000
Hey thanks for this, you saved me half day of reinstalling a station. |
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