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Pegasus \(MVP\)
Ken Krone said:I had an installation of Win2000 which had been running flawlessly until
this AM.
I received a new SATA hard drive that I was going to use for mirroring
in RAID1. I moved my flawlessly functioning hdd to the RAID controller,
mirrored it with the new drive, enabled the RAID controller on my
motherboard and it did not work. I disabled the RAID and hooked up my
original hdd the way it had been, on the same primary connector, and
tried to boot. The boot only goes through finding the PCI assignments,
then stops at a flashing cursor. I set the CD-Rom as the boot device,
booted the Win2000 CD-Rom and selected the Repair option.
The first option was to repair with the console, which basically gave me
a boot into what appears and functions like DOS. I DIR'd my way through
the various logical partitions and all of my data is there. I TYPE'd
the boot.ini file and it has the standard command of
multit(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1):\WINNT etc.
I then ran through the boot and chose the option that allows the
operating system to repair itself but when that was finished I could
still not boot into Win2K.
So I am baffled as to how to get this disk, which is operable, to boot.
I would not mind doing an install if someone can tell me which files to
back up in a different partition so that I could regain all of my
settings and registered programs but I must be missing something simple.
Many thanks in advance,
Ken K
Feel free to email me at the above corrected address...
As a first step I would determine if the Win2000 installation is still
intact, if it is just the boot process that fails. You can do this by
booting off a Win2000 boot diskette. Here is how to make one:
- Format a floppy disk on some other Win2000 PC.
Don't do it on a Win9x PC - it won't work.
- Copy these files from the \i386 folder of your Win2000 CD
to A:\
ntldr
ntdetect.com
- Copy c:\boot.ini from your own hard disk to a:\.
- Boot the machine with this floppy