Booting Problems

[Wayne Brown]

I was running 40g and 6.5g hard drives. The 6.5g went sour and I had to
get rid of it. It showed up as drive 'D'. The 40g drive has 5 partitions,
C, E, F, G, and H. After removing the small drive, those drive names
remained.

I have been dual booting W98 and W2000. I cannot now boot without going
through setup.

What I would like to do is reformat the C drive which contains W98 and
reinstal W2000 onto that drive. If I do that, will the computer then boot
directly into W2000 and forget about the dual boot process?

Also, How can I get the drives renamed to be C, D, E, F and G?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Sounds like you may have removed scsi ID marked as boot device, so the first
suggestion probably doesn't apply.

 

[Wayne Brown]

Thanx for the suggestion. I have printed this out and will give it a try.

The message I get each time I start after shutting the computer down is:

"Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..Not Found"
The computer then goes to "Boot Failure"
Insert Boot diskette in A:

I hit Ctrl - Alt - Del and go into setup and find that Setup does not show
my hard drive. I hit F3 to find the hard drive, then Esc and F10 to save
and exit and I can boot into Win2000.

1.) You didn't mention the error message when you try, but try booting the
recovery console and from a command prompt issue the command;
fixboot

To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000
Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup
floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup CD,
use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy disks.
Press ENTER at the "Setup Notification" screen. Press R to repair a Windows
2000 installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The
Recovery Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do
not have the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the
computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the Recovery
Console quits and restarts the computer. Once the password has been
validated, you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access
to the hard disk. You can only access the following folders on your
computer: %systemroot% and %windir%

Or try creating a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows
2000 the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on an NT
machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy),
and copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys.
Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to
boot.

2.) After the install, you may need to remove the line from boot.ini located
in the root of the system partition. Explorer|Tools|Folder Options|View,
then radio button for "Show hidden files and folders", then uncheck the box
for "Hide protected operating system files" to locate the files in the
system partition.

3.) You can reassign non-system, non-boot partition drive leters in Disk
Management snap-in.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

I was running 40g and 6.5g hard drives. The 6.5g went sour and I had to
get rid of it. It showed up as drive 'D'. The 40g drive has 5 partitions,
C, E, F, G, and H. After removing the small drive, those drive names
remained.

I have been dual booting W98 and W2000. I cannot now boot without going
through setup.

What I would like to do is reformat the C drive which contains W98 and
reinstal W2000 onto that drive. If I do that, will the computer then boot
directly into W2000 and forget about the dual boot process?

Also, How can I get the drives renamed to be C, D, E, F and G?

 

[Dave Patrick]

You'll need to go into scsi controller bios to check the boot device and or
assign a new one.

 

[Wayne Brown]

If I have removed the SCSI ID marked as boot device, how do I replace it?

If I were to fromat the C drive and do a fresh instal of Windows 2000 over
top of it, would I get back to normal??

Sounds like you may have removed scsi ID marked as boot device, so the first
suggestion probably doesn't apply.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Thanx for the suggestion. I have printed this out and will give it a try.

The message I get each time I start after shutting the computer down is:

"Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..Not Found"
The computer then goes to "Boot Failure"
Insert Boot diskette in A:

I hit Ctrl - Alt - Del and go into setup and find that Setup does not show
my hard drive. I hit F3 to find the hard drive, then Esc and F10 to save
and exit and I can boot into Win2000.

 

[Dave Patrick]

What setup and what are you saving? Are the drive IDE? If so make sure
they're correctly recognized in cmos setup. It appears you have it setup to
boot from a scsi device.

 

[Wayne Brown]

o.k., I guess I need to say that I am a non-technical user. I'm having
trouble understanding why I need to worry about a scsi controller when I
don't have anything scsi on my computer. I couldn't find anything about
scsi when I went through the setup menu again.

Why do you suppose my computer shows that I do not have a hard drive after I
instal it in setup and save it???

You'll need to go into scsi controller bios to check the boot device and or
assign a new one.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

If I have removed the SCSI ID marked as boot device, how do I replace it?

If I were to fromat the C drive and do a fresh instal of Windows 2000 over
top of it, would I get back to normal??

 

[Dave Patrick]

If the drive jumpers are correct, you may want to contact the mb
manufacturer on this issue.

 

[Wayne Brown]

Thanx for all your suggestions, Dave. I'll keep chugging away.

If the drive jumpers are correct, you may want to contact the mb
manufacturer on this issue.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

When I boot up, the computer says that the primary hard drive is not
detected. I then press "ctrl, Alt, Del" and then press 'Del' to enter
CMOS. Hitting F3 will then show my hard drive. I exit and save and the
computer will boot fine. Once I shut the computer off, I have to go
through this all again the next time I boot up as it will not save the
settings.

 

[Wayne Brown]

You hit it, Dave! It was the jumper settings. I should have changed them
after my 2nd hard drive died.
Thanx.

If the drive jumpers are correct, you may want to contact the mb
manufacturer on this issue.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

When I boot up, the computer says that the primary hard drive is not
detected. I then press "ctrl, Alt, Del" and then press 'Del' to enter
CMOS. Hitting F3 will then show my hard drive. I exit and save and the
computer will boot fine. Once I shut the computer off, I have to go
through this all again the next time I boot up as it will not save the
settings.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Glad to hear it's sorted.