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Secondaryl NT4 not getting past boot menu
Have WinNT4W(SP6) installed on the first partition of the
system's 2nd internal IDE HDD (on the secondary master channel) for use in an emergency to repair the primary Win2000 Pro OS. The file boot.ini was modified to accomodate the (secondary) WinNT4W OS and is properly located on the first partition of the other HDD (of the primary master channel, which contains Win2000 Pro). After this OS is selected from the boot menu screen, the next screen is again black and reads: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware didk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information." Perhaps a clue to the problem is that BIOS assigns the drive designations as follows: Fixed Disk 0 (HDD containing the primary Win2000 Pro OS) ATAPI CD-ROM Fixed Disk 2 (HDD containing the secondary WinNT4W OS) Notice that there is no HDD designated by BIOS as Fixed Disk 1. So the file boot.ini has been edited with the following ARC path for the WinNT4W boot: multi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" /noserialmice My gut feeling is that I don't have the ARC path right. I've also tried the numeral '1' instead of '2', and have also tried the '2' following the word 'disk' instead of before it. The same WinNT4W installation used to boot without a hitch when it was the only HDD in the system and was cabled as primary master (instead of the current secondary master). Any suggestions? |
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Secondaryl NT4 not getting past boot menu
Knack wrote:
Have WinNT4W(SP6) installed on the first partition of the system's 2nd internal IDE HDD (on the secondary master channel) for use in an emergency to repair the primary Win2000 Pro OS. The file boot.ini was modified to accomodate the (secondary) WinNT4W OS and is properly located on the first partition of the other HDD (of the primary master channel, which contains Win2000 Pro). After this OS is selected from the boot menu screen, the next screen is again black and reads: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware didk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information." Perhaps a clue to the problem is that BIOS assigns the drive designations as follows: Fixed Disk 0 (HDD containing the primary Win2000 Pro OS) ATAPI CD-ROM Fixed Disk 2 (HDD containing the secondary WinNT4W OS) Notice that there is no HDD designated by BIOS as Fixed Disk 1. So the file boot.ini has been edited with the following ARC path for the WinNT4W boot: multi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" /noserialmice My gut feeling is that I don't have the ARC path right. I've also tried the numeral '1' instead of '2', and have also tried the '2' following the word 'disk' instead of before it. The same WinNT4W installation used to boot without a hitch when it was the only HDD in the system and was cabled as primary master (instead of the current secondary master). Any suggestions? What happens if you try this: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINNT= Using the MAP command (map arc) in a Recovery Console session might shed some light on the issue. John PS: Were these 2 operating systems installed independent of each other? If so you will probably need a third party boot manager to make this work, or you will have to toggle the boot drives in the BIOS. |
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Secondaryl NT4 not getting past boot menu
John John wrote:
What happens if you try this: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINNT= Using the MAP command (map arc) in a Recovery Console session might shed some light on the issue. BINGO !! Your revised ARC path did the trick. Can't thank you enough. Now it begins the WinNT4 boot process, but a BSOD appears before the login screen. Will post this new problem in a separate thread in the microsoft.public.windowsnt.general newsgroup. And oh, darn. With regards to the Recovery Console, I just discovered that myy Win2000 Pro CD is cracked and won't run. Does Win200 Pro have a feature that can create a new setup/recoveryconsole CD; similar to the way that WinNT4 has a feature to create the 3 setup floppy diskettes? |
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Secondaryl NT4 not getting past boot menu
Knack wrote:
And oh, darn. With regards to the Recovery Console, I just discovered that myy Win2000 Pro CD is cracked and won't run. Does Win200 Pro have a feature that can create a new setup/recoveryconsole CD; similar to the way that WinNT4 has a feature to create the 3 setup floppy diskettes? Yes, you can create a set of startup floppies (4 floppies) to launch the Recovery Console or to initiate the setup process. See he http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true I think you might also be able to download them from Bootdisk.com John |
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