Hello, Having a problem with Windows 2000 Server restarting everything time I boot up. Here is the deal: This is everything I was doing tonight and then it happend. I was configuring system audits, and permissions for WINNT Folder, and System32 folder and a few other DOS progs. i.e. Ping.exe, root.exe, etc.... I have Win2k Server installed on D:\ Primary Master, and then Win98 on C:\Primary Slave, D: is a 28 GIG HD and C: is a 20 GIG, I pretty much use C: for storage and when something goes wrong I can always get on here and figure out how to fix it. Anyhow so that I dont write a book, I was moving some files from C: to D: around 10gigs of files so that I could format C: Well when I did so after it finished the Explorer started to not respond so I did CTRL+ALT+DEL and it brought up the Options, went to Task Manager and then it brought me back to the normal desktop without showing the task manager, I did this a few times and it never came up, So I Restarted Normally from the Shutdown panel, and then when it booted it would get to the Windows 2000 is Starting up and the progress bar on the bottom, the actual graphical one, as soon as it was complete it would restart, I have even tried to just format the D: drive and it wont let me, it says something I forget like not capable or termination something like that, I have ran Win2k Server for quite some time now and have NEVER had a problem till now. Any ideas will be very appreciated! Oh and i deleted a few of the files to get some more room, something like Config.sys or something not sure, ;) just kidding no I deleted some files that I transfered over to make more room, They were just movies, then I emptied the recyling bin then the explorer and stuff I mentioned earlier started. I know it isnt anything hardware related that would be impossible. But Could it possibly be that when I changed the System32 folder and the WINNT folder security permissions that it could have caused it to not execute any files in there? I set everyone deny permissions and only admins full control. Thanks

Yes, you CAN deny the system acces to certain files and things won't work, or they'll work funny. I'm not sure if that was your full problem or you had additional things get corrupted when you were trying to move files around. Your best bet is to pop in a Windows 9x boot disk and FDISK the partition and reinstall the OS (after you get your data off).... And the easiest way to block local users on a machine (least the non techie types) is to just Hide the files and folders, then disable the Folders Option with Group Policies. It prevents things like this.....

Cool, i think that is probably my problem, But now here is the other problem, Since I cant just do Format D: (remember WIn2k on D: and Win98 on C:) So we got FAT32 on C: and NTFS on D:, and when I do FDISK it only shows the C: FAT32 not the D:, and when I run SCANDISK on D: it goes super fast even the surface scan, like it takes about less then a minute to complete both. yet when I do it on C: it takes like 5 minutes and C: isnt as big as D:, OK so anyhow, Basically I just need to FORMAT D: but I cant, ANy suggestions on how it will let me? FDISK doesnt work or doesnt show my D: NTFS partition, should I do larger disk? FORMAT D: wont work, says it is unsupported and will now terminate, or something like that. I can boot up fine in Win98 and everything works good, but I can see my D: drive, my D: drive in Win98 is set to the CDROM as when I boot up from the D: drive (win2k) I can see the C: just fine. any possible ways of rearanging this? I have tried to switch the drives and it doesnt do anything, change from master to slave. Thanks.