Creation of an Emergency Repair Disk Fails
Article ID: 165713
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q165713
SYMPTOMS
When you use the Create Repair Disk option of the Repair Disk Utility, you
can receive the following error message:
Repair Disk Utility could not copy all files to the Emergency Repair
Disk.
One or more configuration files were not found.
CAUSE
One or more of the following files may be missing from the
%SystemRoot%\repair directory:
autoexec.nt
config.nt
default._
security._
software._
system._
sam._
RESOLUTION
Use the RDISK utility with the -s option to replace all needed files.
RDISK with no parameters will not replace the following files:
sam._
system._
default._
Additional query words: diskette fail doesn't work unexpected
Keywords: kbenv kberrmsg kbprb kbsetup KB165713