Boot Problems W2K advanced Server

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I have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server that when you reboot it; it will only
get to a flashing cursor on the top left hand corner of a black screen. It
stops there just before it loads Windows. When I put a boot disk in and
restart, it boots up normally. I scheduled a chkdsk to run on restart and it
finished, I took the diskette out to see if it would boot, and it went to the
flashing cursor on the top left.
I copied the boot.ini file off of the diskette onto C: drive and tried it,
but still did the flashing cursor thing.
When I run a defrag it says "The file or directory is corrupt and
unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility.
Not sure what else to do. It is at SP4 with all of the lastest patches,
updates

Thanks

 

[Dave Patrick]

This might apply or the drive may have failed. Download and run a diagnostic
utility from the drive manufacturer's web site.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/167045/EN-US/

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|I have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server that when you reboot it; it will only
| get to a flashing cursor on the top left hand corner of a black screen. It
| stops there just before it loads Windows. When I put a boot disk in and
| restart, it boots up normally. I scheduled a chkdsk to run on restart and
it
| finished, I took the diskette out to see if it would boot, and it went to
the
| flashing cursor on the top left.
| I copied the boot.ini file off of the diskette onto C: drive and tried it,
| but still did the flashing cursor thing.
| When I run a defrag it says "The file or directory is corrupt and
| unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility.
| Not sure what else to do. It is at SP4 with all of the lastest patches,
| updates
|
| Thanks
|