Repair Disk Contents Appear to Be Incomplete

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This article was previously published under Q253441

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SYMPTOMS

When you view the contents of an emergency repair diskette created with Windows 2000, the set of files may appear to be incomplete, and the files on the disk are:

Autoexec.nt
Config.nt
Setup.log

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CAUSE

This issue occurs because the 1.44 megabyte (MB) floppy disk does not have the capacity to store all of the files necessary to complete an emergency repair.

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RESOLUTION

To perform an operating system repair of Windows 2000, view the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

229716 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/229716/EN-US/ ) Description of the Windows 2000 Recovery Console

238359 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238359/EN-US/ ) Differences Between Manual and Fast Repair in Windows 2000

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STATUS

This behavior is by design.

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The %SystemRoot%\Repair folder on the computer contains the files needed to perform a repair. By default, the %SystemRoot% folder is normally WINNT. To manually back up the repair information, copy the %SystemRoot%\Repair folder to another location, or use the Windows 2000 backup program (which can automate this process).

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