re: Dual Boot Hanging on Boot Problem
Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 6:59 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11847 messages posted)
Bill
Just a long shot.
Are you using a SCSI drive in your system ? by chance.
If so look at the root of C: for item called
NTBOOTDD.SYS it should be in the root of C: it loads the device (dual boot system)
But win2k will over look it some times,but it wll hang at boot until it can but it's
hands on it.
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If in your boot.ini file your ARC paths consist of either SCSI() or SIGNATURE() you
are using SCSI connection for the installation and the file NTBOOTDD.SYS contains
the miniport device driver for the initial boot to communicate with the SCSI controller.
On Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 3:59 pm, Bill Olson wrote:
>I have a dual boot system Win 2K SP4 and Win 98SE. I changed mother boards about
>two weeks ago and ended up having to repair my Win 2K installation. Ever since,
>I've been getting some odd behavior on boot. Win 98 boots fine, but Win 2K intermittantly
>hangs on the boot menu.
>The boot.ini is set to default to Win 2K, if I just hit enter to bypass the countdown,
>it just hangs on the boot menu and does nothing until I reboot the machine (it doesn't
>even respond to Ctrl+Alt+Del, I need hit the reset button). Often if I wait a second
>or two and hit the up and down arrow to select Windows 98, then back to Win 2K,
it
>will boot when I hit Enter. Though not always. It almost always boots OK when
I
>let it count down, but it hung this morning one second into the count. If I do
anything
>like selecting boot logging or safe mode it boots every time, so I am having trouble
>debugging this one.
>Does anybody have any ideas about this one? I hate intermittant problems...
>Thanks in advance,
>Bill
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