How can I remove a started setup/installation of Windows Server 2003and restore the old operating system?

[Guest amzd]

How can I remove a started setup/installation of Windows Server 2003and restore the old operating system?

 

Hello,

 

Because on my server with Windows Server 2003 I had an error message

"ntldr not found" I started it with the setup-CD. Actually I wanted to

try to repair it. However, after initiating the setup it took quite

long so in between I went to my work place. When I came back it was

way down the installation procedure in the GUI part already but

finally it couldn't find some files and stopped.

Unfortunately now it always runs into the setup which does not work, I

have no choice to boot in the old windows Server 2003 operating

system. I tried F8 and chose last known good and again it runs into

the erroneous setup.

First I thought may be it has created a temporary setup partition and

just rerouted the boot.ini into this setup.

I checked the boot.ini with knoppix but it had only one line in it

which the server uses for booting.

Is there any way to remove the started setup and have the machine boot

in the old windows server 2003 operating system?

The ntldr message was only because s.o. had put a non-bootable floppy

in the machine which I didn't notice – a lapsus which feels like a bad

joke…

 

Thank you

Andreas

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: How can I remove a started setup/installation of Windows Server 2003 and restore the old operating system?

 

Re: How can I remove a started setup/installation of Windows Server 2003 and restore the old operating system?

 

 

"amzd" <Andreas.meyer@dmc-group.de> wrote in message

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Hello,

 

Because on my server with Windows Server 2003 I had an error message

"ntldr not found" I started it with the setup-CD. Actually I wanted to

try to repair it. However, after initiating the setup it took quite

long so in between I went to my work place. When I came back it was

way down the installation procedure in the GUI part already but

finally it couldn't find some files and stopped.

Unfortunately now it always runs into the setup which does not work, I

have no choice to boot in the old windows Server 2003 operating

system. I tried F8 and chose last known good and again it runs into

the erroneous setup.

First I thought may be it has created a temporary setup partition and

just rerouted the boot.ini into this setup.

I checked the boot.ini with knoppix but it had only one line in it

which the server uses for booting.

Is there any way to remove the started setup and have the machine boot

in the old windows server 2003 operating system?

The ntldr message was only because s.o. had put a non-bootable floppy

in the machine which I didn't notice – a lapsus which feels like a bad

joke…

 

Thank you

Andreas

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Your original installation is probably overwritten by now, so your

only choice would be to complete the partial installation. To protect

yourself against similar mishaps in future it might be a good idea to

create an image of the completed installation, using an imaging

program such as Acronis TrueImage.

[Guest amzd]

Re: How can I remove a started setup/installation of Windows Server2003 and restore the old operating system?

 

Re: How can I remove a started setup/installation of Windows Server2003 and restore the old operating system?

 

> =============

> Your original installation is probably overwritten by now, so your

> only choice would be to complete the partial installation. To protect

> yourself against similar mishaps in future it might be a good idea to

> create an image of the completed installation, using an imaging

> program such as Acronis TrueImage.

 

Thank you.

Too bad, I thought perhaps it has prepared some files with a special

marking which could be removed or some such.

However, the setup always runs against the same error where it misses

some files...

 

So how could I start a fresh setup - for which right now there is no

option when starting the machine since it ignores the CD. I can hit

the button start from CD and it continues in the setup where it has

left off last time. It leaves no other options.

 

Does someone have an idea how to get around this?

 

Thank you

Andreas

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: How can I remove a started setup/installation of Windows Server 2003 and restore the old operating system?

 

Re: How can I remove a started setup/installation of Windows Server 2003 and restore the old operating system?

 

 

"amzd" <Andreas.meyer@dmc-group.de> wrote in message

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>> =============

>> Your original installation is probably overwritten by now, so your

>> only choice would be to complete the partial installation. To protect

>> yourself against similar mishaps in future it might be a good idea to

>> create an image of the completed installation, using an imaging

>> program such as Acronis TrueImage.

>

> Thank you.

> Too bad, I thought perhaps it has prepared some files with a special

> marking which could be removed or some such.

> However, the setup always runs against the same error where it misses

> some files...

>

> So how could I start a fresh setup - for which right now there is no

> option when starting the machine since it ignores the CD. I can hit

> the button start from CD and it continues in the setup where it has

> left off last time. It leaves no other options.

>

> Does someone have an idea how to get around this?

>

> Thank you

> Andreas

 

You could boot the machine with your Knoppix disk and

delete the various boot files plus the c:\Windows folder.

It may even be sufficient to delete boot.ini.