Failed (non-boot) Hard drive halts windows bootup!?
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 4:57 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by nick
(4 messages posted)
Hello, my win2k system has 2 hard drives, when I went to move both drives to a new
PC I was setting up, the non-boot drive (data drive) failed due to a stiction problem,
that's a whole other problem though...the boot drive with win2k (c: drive) is still
OK, so I was hoping to be able to keep my PC the same (same windows setup, apps etc)
but just not have the data accessible. What happened was when the good drive starts
to boot into win2k it gets through the OS selection screen and possibly the kernel
load but halts with a blue screen that says 'drive not accessible' and to run a virus
scanner. So what's happening is the win2k loader is looking for something on the
missing drive that is preventing it from starting windows. What I want to do is break
all of the links/pointers that point to that drive and let win2k boot from c:, but
I'm not too sure what windows is looking for on that drive. I think the startup
sequence is just getting to the reading the registry stage, there is a section of
the registry that describes the drives in the system. Can I read this and see if
it's looking for the other drive?? It may be looking for the MBR on the other drive
but I'm not sure at this point...any help would be appreciated....what I'm hoping
is I can go in and change a line or two in a file or the registry and be running
like I was before....(fingers crossed) :) l8r...Nick
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