Some things to try below (not necessarily in this order);
1.) Try taking ownership.
2.) 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 a
Windows 2000 machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to
the floppy), and copy Windows 2000 versions of ntldr, ntdetect.com, and
boot.ini to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the
machine you wish to boot. Below is an example of boot.ini. The default is to
start the operating system located on the first partition of the primary or
first drive (drive0). Then drive0 partition 2 and so on.
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000"
Another possibility is to try loading the controller driver also from
floppy. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must
contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000 machine,
not a DOS/Win9x, so the "NT" boot sector gets written to the floppy), then
copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a
correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.
In order for this to work you'll want to change the arc path in boot.ini
from multi syntax to scsi syntax to indicate that Windows 2000 will load a
boot device driver and use that driver to access the boot partition. Then
also copy the correct manufacturer scsi driver to the floppy but renamed to
ntbootdd.sys
Something like this below;
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows
[operating systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,1"
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,2"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,1"
scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,2"
3.) A parallel install of the operating system.
4.)
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml
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| Hi all slight problem, my server running Windows 2000 Server, the C drive
is
| formatted as NTFS and when it boots up i get INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE
error
| problem is there is some data i need to recover from this drive. Ive
tried
| putting the disk in as a slave drive in another ntfs system it see the
drive
| ok in my computer but not in disk manager, just says access denied if i
try
| to read it. Ive found a free dos boot disk on the net that i can boot
with
| and from its file menu i can see all my data is there ok. How can i get
to
| it so i can copy it off ? Any ideas ? Ive got other spare pc's and bits
so
| any ideas welcome.
|
| Thanks
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