My old motherboard blew, so I replaced it with an old one left over from some computer repair long past. Anyway, it didn't work with my existing windows 2k installation, so i used Ubunta (live) for a bit. I decided to install windows 2k without formatting, so now I have 2 boot options (win2k, or win2k). This has preserved my files, but I wonder if there is a way to access the other installation, or repair it to a degree. I've considered just replacing all the system files and whatnot, and just hoping that it fixes it (because if it doesn't, i have linux and this installation of win2k to fall back on). But if anyone has done this before or has any idea how to do this, let me know.

Please determine if the two entries in the boot.ini point to exactly the same place. If so you can't repair the old install since it was overwritten by the new install. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

I didn't overwrite it. Both still appear, the other one is still corrupted, or whatever happened to it. I have two WINNT folders, 2 administrator accounts... everything is still in tact (I can still go to my old desktop). I just have to reinstall all the programs if I want to use them, even though they're in program files. Hopefully that helps.

I take it you have two partitions with two different installs then? After all two winnt folders can not exist on the same drive at the same location [eg. c:\winnt] You need to identify which is which for the repair install or you will repair the wrong install :-). So is the broken one on c:\winnt or d:\winnt? Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Oh, it's C:/winnt and C:/winnt.0 C:/winnt.0 is the new install of windows 2k. The bad install is C:/winnt. It's really just because it doesn't work right with this motherboard. My old motherboard worked fine with it. I have a few ideas on how to fix it, maybe fixmbr on the winnt, i'm going to attempt a scandisk/defrag and hope that it works. If that doesn't work I have a few more ideas, hopefully someone here knows something about this though.

sorry to tell you but I doubt you will be able to repair correctly. You might have two winnt folders but programs and documents and settings will be in common. If you had come here before you did your new install you could have recovered your original. You needed to do a repair install of 2000. You are given a choice of new or repair existing when you boot the 2k cd via the bios. Choose repair not new. Reason you have to do a repair install is your registry and drivers are wrong for the new mainboard. Not something fixboot or scandisk [?] can fix. Repair corrects both [you have to provide the driver disks]. Your best bet is to backup your data, wipe the drive and reinstall from scratch so everything is new and fresh including your applications. It certainly wouldn't hurt to try the repair. Best of luck. Knowing the correct answer and giving a correct answer, are two different things

hi it's shajul.I am clueless about ur problem but i thought that u can solve mine.What shall i do, my comp is 32MB RAM and i takes about 6 mins to start up.I also wanted to know where i can get a reboot disk and whatever needed to reboot my computer.It is a win2k pro.If anyone can help me thnks. i an 1 of da needy.but not stupid