re: Failed (non-boot) Hard drive halts windows bootup!?
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 7:25 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11847 messages posted)
Nick
stiction problem=? (Striction)
The BIOS sees both HD's Right. ?
Both IDE HD's ?
Can you post your boot.ini file
It's hard to say what you have on the 2nd HD.
that win2k wants to read.
It can be many things.
You can try this boot up with the win2k cd and run the repair this will tell HAL
to look at the HD's and hardware.
On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 4:57 am, nick wrote:
>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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