Drive Signatures

[Jason Paton]

Hi,

I've got an SBS2000 server with 2 IDE hard drives mirrored using the
software mirroring in Win2000. If I remove the first drive and try to boot
to the second drive it gives the error:

"Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware
configuratrion problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk
hardware."

Ive noticed that in the boot.ini file its referencing a signature:

signature(cde81bd4)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Win2k Srvr"
/fastdetect

Could this be the cause of the problem?

Any help gratefully received.

Regards,

Jason Paton

 

[Eric Gisin]

The signature(#) in boot.ini is some obscure setup bug. multi(0) is normal.

You should just have multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)part..., and your boot floppy must
also have another with rdisk(N), where N is usually 1. Use "fdisk /status" if
you have more than two drives.

|
| I've got an SBS2000 server with 2 IDE hard drives mirrored using the
| software mirroring in Win2000. If I remove the first drive and try to boot
| to the second drive it gives the error:
|
| "Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware
| configuratrion problem.
| Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk
| hardware."
|
| Ive noticed that in the boot.ini file its referencing a signature:
|
| signature(cde81bd4)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Win2k Srvr"
| /fastdetect
|
| Could this be the cause of the problem?
|