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

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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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