my friend accidently formatted his boot drive, in this case c:\ amd now he can't boot into win2k. Fortunately his win2k install was in another partition formatted in NTFS, d:\ .

we have tried to use the boot disks but it can't find the win2k install- but if we try to recover using the recovery console, the console could find the win2k install. unfortunately we don't know the commands to recover.

is there anyway way to recover?

btw. he didn't create an ERD, but did craete an emergency boot disks for partition magic 6

Yes, there is a way to do this:
Boot off the Win2k CD.
Choose the repair option at the install screen.
Read the directions carefully and follow the steps to do a repair with out help of the ERD. There are two types of Repairs available: Automatic and Manual. Try the Automatic repair first and see if you can boot into Win2k, if not go through the steps again and try the Manual repair. If your buddy has SP2 on, say no to the long list of files that the disk thinks is wrong. Look to replace NTLDR, NTOSKRNL.EXE, and other boot portions. NTLDR is probably the most important I believe.

or in the recovery console type:

fixboot

(I think)

Does that require an ERD? I'm thinkin' it does.