> The solution to your problem is to set up another minimal copy of NT as a
> debug system on the same disk. With the system up and running on the
> original copy of NT, run the 32 bit version of the install program from the
> I386 directory (on your hard disk if it is there, else off the NT CD) and
> create a new copy of NT in another directory, don't "update" the existing
> copy. This will put some new entries in the boot record file, and now when
> the system is booting, run the "debug" copy, and copy the desired file to
> the system32 directory of the original copy of NT.

This is an excellent suggestion, in fact.  I recently upgraded my work
laptop from NT to Win2K.  Of course after the upgrade it refused to
boot... in the end, I found an Ethernet card driver that was hanging
during loading.  To get around it I installed a second copy of W2K "clean"
in a new directory, booted into it, deleted the offending drivers...
Presto!  End of problem.  Once the first install was working I jsut
deleted the new W2K directory I had created.  Worked like a charm, and
prevented an awful lot of hair-pulling an teeth-gnashing.

Dale

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