Microsoft KB Archive/165713

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Creation of an Emergency Repair Disk Fails

Article ID: 165713

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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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

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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

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