Using Recovery Console on a Single Drive Computer
If your computer contains only a single NTFS volume and no additional Windows 2000-based computers
or hard disks are available to use for the previously described methods
, you can boot from the four Setup disks to run the Chkdsk tool with the Ntfs.sys driver disabled.
To repair a NTFS volume by using Recovery Console, use the following steps:
1. Start the computer by using a Microsoft Windows 95/98 startup disk
with CD-ROM support (or from another computer with a CD-ROM drive, insert the Windows 2000 installation CD-ROM).
2. Change to the CD_ROM:\Support\Bootdisk folder, and then run Makeboot.exe or Makebt32.exe to create the four Windows 2000 Setup disks.
3. Using Notepad, modify the Txtsetup.sif file on the first Setup disk you created in step 2:
a. In the [FileSystems.Load] section, locate the line that begins with "ntfs."
b. Insert a semicolon (

at the beginning of the line, as shown in the following example:
[FileSystems.Load]
fat = fastfat.sys
;ntfs = ntfs.sys
c. Save your changes.
4. Start the computer that is experiencing the "stop 0x24" error message by using the four Setup disks.
When the Welcome to Setup dialog box is displayed, press F10 to start Recovery Console.
5. Run the following command to repair the corrupted NTFS partition:
chkdsk driveletter: /p
6. Type exit to quit Recovery Console, and then restart the computer.
If none of these methods work, you may have to delete, re-create, and format the corrupted NTFS partition,
and restore the partition from your last good backup of the volume. The fdisk command in MS-DOS 5.x,
MS-DOS 6.x, or Windows 95 and Windows 98 lets you to delete NTFS partitions by selecting and