Hi,
I have a backup server that doesn't want to boot after completing auto windows updates. The free space on C drive was very low before booting. Its a remote server, so I don't know if he will boot in safe mode, but if he don't, any idea of what I could to do delete some files and make space for it to boot ??? Its a NTFS partition also.
I thought about Knoppix, but I got some problem with it on other computers when trying to delete files.
Thanks,
Eric
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One thing else you could try, is download the trial version (or buy a full version) of avast bart CD, which is a mini bootable windows CD with which you should be able to get enough access to delete what you want to.
http://avast.com/eng/lates
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by: rindiPosted on 2005-06-15 at 07:20:28ID: 14221669
How far does it go when you try to boot? Can you try connecting to C$ as administrator remotely? If that is possible you could try deleting the oldest C:\Winnt\$NTUninst.... directories, which are saved files from windows updates and normally are only necessary for a short time after the update if the update wouldn't work. If that doesn't work, it should at least boot into safe mode command prompt and then you could delete the directories from there localy. Knoppix probably doesn't work because it can only read ntfs partitions and doesn't have any further rights. If I remember correctly version 3.7 includes captive-ntfs which will allow you to get more than just read-only access to ntfs partitions. The newer versions don't include captive-ntfs anymore.