Boot failure following backup of CNC machine.

[Bobby]

Hi,
I have an old CNC machine in our factory which uses Windows NT. On a
weekly basis the operator backs up the p/c by inserting a hard drive
into the front of the machine and using some backup software to
effectively ghost the boot disk onto the backup. In theory, either
disk should now be bootable.

Following today's backup, when he tries to restart the machine, he
keeps getting the following error:

"Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.".

This always happens after the following line:

"2 15 0 10B7 9055 Network Controller IRQ15"

He tells me that todays backup worked fine and the machine was working
ok prior to the backup. Now neither disk will boot the machine.

Can it really be that both disks are now corrupted in some way, or is
there something else which I am missing? Would it be worth creating
some NT boot disks and seeing if that works? I really don't want to
have to completely reload the software. For one thing, it all came
preloaded years ago, and I'm not even sure we still have the disks.

I realise that this might be the wrong group, but finding an active
group for NT is proving difficult. If you know of any, can you please
direct me to the best group I should use.

Thanks for any help,

Colin

 

[Malke]

Hi,
I have an old CNC machine in our factory which uses Windows NT. On a
weekly basis the operator backs up the p/c by inserting a hard drive
into the front of the machine and using some backup software to
effectively ghost the boot disk onto the backup. In theory, either
disk should now be bootable.

Following today's backup, when he tries to restart the machine, he
keeps getting the following error:

"Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.".

This always happens after the following line:

"2 15 0 10B7 9055 Network Controller IRQ15"

He tells me that todays backup worked fine and the machine was working
ok prior to the backup. Now neither disk will boot the machine.

Can it really be that both disks are now corrupted in some way, or is
there something else which I am missing? Would it be worth creating
some NT boot disks and seeing if that works? I really don't want to
have to completely reload the software. For one thing, it all came
preloaded years ago, and I'm not even sure we still have the disks.

I realise that this might be the wrong group, but finding an active
group for NT is proving difficult. If you know of any, can you please
direct me to the best group I should use.

Take the hard drives to another machine, slave them, and test with a
drive diagnostic from either the hard drive mftr. or use Seagate's
SeaTools. Do a thorough test on each drive and if they fail any physical
tests, you will need to replace them.

If the drives pass the test and are good, then there is a strong
possibility that the older CNC machine has some other failing hardware
and the errors were copied to the imaged drive. If the machine was
designed to natively run NT, then it is ancient in computer years and it
should come as no surprise that it might be dying. Surely you planned
for this in your disaster strategy?


Malke

 

[Bobby]

Take the hard drives to another machine, slave them, and test with a
drive diagnostic from either the hard drive mftr. or use Seagate's
SeaTools. Do a thorough test on each drive and if they fail any physical
tests, you will need to replace them.

If the drives pass the test and are good, then there is a strong
possibility that the older CNC machine has some other failing hardware
and the errors were copied to the imaged drive. If the machine was
designed to natively run NT, then it is ancient in computer years and it
should come as no surprise that it might be dying. Surely you planned
for this in your disaster strategy?

Malke
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Thanks for your help.

The machine is highly specialised, and is available from only one
manufacturer World wide. All of their machines run NT. We either use
it or we don't. There is no upgrade option.

 

[Malke]

Thanks for your help.

The machine is highly specialised, and is available from only one
manufacturer World wide. All of their machines run NT. We either use
it or we don't. There is no upgrade option.

Then you need to contact that mftr. for help. It is unlikely that this
is a Windows issue.


Malke