re: Failed (non-boot) Hard drive halts windows bootup!?
Friday, September 30, 2005 at 11:13 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by nick
(4 messages posted)
reply below...
>when Windows starts. In this case, it sounds like the drive shows in the BIOS but
>the platters are not spinning up. The hive and key
no, the BIOS doesn't recognize the drive as being there....
>as Win 9X is the only system that supports a hardware change and re-detects hardware
>on every boot up. Win NT/2k/XP doesn't. That's why NT systems won't start when
>motherboards are changed (different IDE controllers) or HD's are moved to a new
system.
what i was getting at is there must be a location where the config info is stored,
if i can find where that's at i could go in and tell it that the drive's not there....all
of the stuff i've seen to this point says run chkdisk /f and fix the drive, none
of them cover the situation where a drive totally fails and cannot be replaced, meaning
windows has to be patched to run without the drive...
> If it can't, up pops the errors. Nothing you can do in the registry to stop that
>except to remove the bad drive. All operating
i have removed the bad drive, but it still didn't remove the _dependency_ on the
boot sequence to that drive...in the "hkey_local_machine\system\MountedDevices" key
there is a list of the drives in the system...does anybody know if that is scanned
at startup or referenced during the kernel load???
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