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BSOD on a Windows NT Workstation 4.0
Discovery of an Unusual recovery I have never seen before and haven't ever seen on the Web

Discovered this last night at work after I crashed my NT 4.0 Workstation.
My job gives me semi-Admin User privleges. They also run that Novell virii also out there so I'm not sure what went wrong.
I edited the registry deleting the OS2, Posix entries here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SubSystems
Reason? I'm tired of getting those EA DATA. SF files when I transfer files to a floppy to copy to laptop. They are undeletable except by format. Read that doing that would stop it.

Rebooted
BSOD Critical Stop Error (yada yada yada)
Panicked at that point cause I know NT don't have recovery console and very limited options. We keep none of our files on the PC's out there only the programs. On that PC we have a bunch of software though and I have no access to the CDs at night. Uh Oh

I went to a Windows 2000 Pro PC which was nearby and formatted a floppy with plain DOS and added files from what I read from one site.
Consisting of, Boot.ini, Bootsect.dos, Ntdetect.com, ntldr

jaclaz over at MSFN let me know this
(some scsi based machines will need a fourth file, NTBOOTDD.SYS) The 2000 is a scsi so that helps and will add that to my boot disk.
My Boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="TECH LAB - NT Workstation 4.00" /basevideo /sos /crashdebug
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="TOOLCRIB - Windows 2000 Pro" /basevideo /sos /crashdebug

Booted the NT machine and after selecting the Default in boot.ini it popped up
"Windows 2000 Press F8 to bring up boot options menu or whatever it say's there" can't remember exactly
Anyone ever worked on NT Machines know's that's not an option. Holy Cow!!!
I pressed F8
Gave me the Full selectable Menu like you see in 2000, and XP What???? Thats not an option in NT
I selected "Last Known Good Configuration" and the thing booted right into NT. Holy Cow, this stuff don't come with NT

I know that the ntldr for Windows 2000 gave me those options but the best part is I was able to get in there and restore what I had done. Rebooted without floppy and it work's again...

I have never ever seen this info on the Web and thought I'd share it with some Admins and anyone needing it. Had I been thinking at the time and I almost did go to another NT station to create this floppy and probably would have never recovered it that night. You do need to know what the person done so you can undo but least when you get in there you have the option of recovering stuff may otherwise have been lost. This may work with XP's files but on my system I don't have the Bootsect.dos

BTW, - I did experiment and copied same files from the NT PC and did not have those options on reboot. I redone my floppy so I have it ready in case this ever happen's again.
If this helps just 1 other person then it was worth typing all this and sharing the Power of Knowledge

Good Luck

BSOD on a Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Discovery of an Unusual recovery I have never seen before and haven't ever seen on the Web

BSOD on a Windows NT Workstation 4.0
Discovery of an Unusual recovery I have never seen before and haven't ever seen on the Web