ARC

[Silver]

I have an old hard drive and when I try to format it
there is an error that reads "windows could not start
because of the following ARC firmware boot configuratiion
problem: did not properly generate ARC name for HAL and
system paths, check for ARC configuration optioons"

Thanks

 

[Milt]

Silver,
This probaboy won't help you, but I got this by doing a
search on "ARC": "The ARC data compression format, created
by Systems Enhancement Associates, is particularly popular
among bulletin board systems (BBSs). Files that have been
compressed with an ARC utility end with a.ARC extension.
To decompress them, you need a utility called ARC-E
(stands for arc-extract)."

Milt

 

[Mike Hall]

This has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with file compression.. it is a different
ARC.. lol

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It sounds like you have two conflicting primary active partitions.
Have you ensured that the drive is jumpered properly for the specific
connection configuration you're using? Does the BIOS recognize the
drive properly?

Bruce Chambers

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It's a different ARC. ;-}

BOOT.INI and ARC Path Naming Conventions and Usage
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q102873

Bruce Chambers

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[Silver]

Thanks: Milt, Mike and Bruce, I have a stupid question is
Windows NT same as Windows XP, because that article
refers to Windows NT only, and after that if that article
applies, what do I do if I can't start the computer.