Creation of an Emergency Repair Disk Fails

Last reviewed: March 19, 1998
Article ID: Q165713

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0

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._
   ntuser._
   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 : ntconfig ntfault NTSrvWkst ntutil kbenv kberrmsg kbsetup
Version : WinNT:3.5,3.51,4.0
Platform : winnt
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbprb

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Last reviewed: March 19, 1998
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