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Its fully repaired, after I could get it to boot from the CDROM, I chose to reinstall, and then a little further into it, you can tell it to repair the installation. I only had to update a couple of drivers and of course reapply all the patches (this time it didn't nuke anything). All of my other settings, hardware, programs, etc were unchanged and work fine.
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We had at work a number of workstations with win2k that would not start after the winupdates.
I suspect that Nortton Anttivirus software might corrupt some files during servicepack 4 installation.
Just a guess really, but I wonder if you happend to have NAV on the box while running the updates?
Yes I did have NAV running while updating; however, I had long since installed SP4 with it running on Win2k with no issues. I also had NAV running on the XP box; however, when I went through and patched it after repairing it, I also had it running when it installed all the patches (including the one that nuked me), so I don't think it had much to do with NAV.
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SP4 sound full of bug... If you read this page http://www.w2knews.com/anecdotes.htm . Have a good read. :)