re: Dual Boot Hanging on Boot Problem
Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 3:45 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bill Olson
(12 messages posted)
I do have a SCSI Zip drive (it's quite old at this point), but it's not the boot
drive. When the problem started, I was using a standard ATA 100 drive to boot.
I've since changed to a Serial ATA drive, which Windows identifies as SCSI for some
reason. For some reason Windows wants to call SATA interfaces SCSI.
The problem was occuring before I had the SATA drive in the system, so I don't think
it's related to the SATA drive.
There is no NTBOOTDD.SYS file on the system. The BOOT.INI also does not refer to
SCSI() or SIGNATURE() items. It looks like a generic ATA drive path:
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT
My boot drive for Windows 2000 is E:
On Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 6:59 pm, DEX wrote:
>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.
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