boot problem

[Mark]

We have a Gateway server with Windows 2000 server
installed. There is 3 hard drives in total. 2 IDE and 1
SCSI. All drives are recognized by the BIOS. However when
it goes to boot, nothing but a black screen and a blinking
cursor show up. All hard drives have been put on other
computers and have been recognized, but the OS hard drive
will not boot. Any ideas?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

We have a Gateway server with Windows 2000 server
installed. There is 3 hard drives in total. 2 IDE and 1
SCSI. All drives are recognized by the BIOS. However when
it goes to boot, nothing but a black screen and a blinking
cursor show up. All hard drives have been put on other
computers and have been recognized, but the OS hard drive
will not boot. Any ideas?

Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from
www.bootdisk.com, then run fdisk.exe to see what
partitions you have and if one of them is active. You
can also run ntfsdos.exe from www.sysinternals.com
to have a closer look at your NTFS partitions. Lastly,
you can try and boot Win2000 with a Win2000 boot
disk like so:
- 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
- Create a file a:\boot.ini with these lines
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=3
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect

These tests should tell you plenty!

 

[Geoffw]

where is the server supposed to boot from ? ide, floppy, cd,
scsi ? this is etup in the bios

what is the boot option sequence ? what order does it check
for booting eg mine checks floppy then cd then scsi to get
to OS

Geoff