Failure to boot, enumeration, unrecoverable errors and a 2 year old boy.

[dglenn]

Just wondered if any of you felt like saving the life of a 2 year old
boy?

Said 2 year old decided it would be great fun to press the reset button
several times on our PC when it was booting. It has 2 SATA Western
Digital hard drives in a RAID 0 array (I'm not sure if this is
relevant to the problem or not but thought I'd best throw it in)

PC will now not boot after Junior's little antics. Turning the PC on
without an XP CD in just leaves it searching in vain for a CD to boot
from.

Putting an XP cd in enables me to boot to the recovery console but it
cannot read C: I get a "An error occurred during directory
enumeration" error.

I've run chkdsk which reports "The volume appears to contain one
of more unrecoverable problems"

I've downloaded a diagnostic utility from the hard drive
manufacturer's site which reports that there are no errors with
either disk.

I've tried using the fixboot command but after using that I get the
ntldr is missing error.

Does anybody have any suggestions as to where to go from here?

I'm sure my son will buy whoever helps me out a drink at some stage
in his life!

TIA for any advice.

 

[paulmd]

Just wondered if any of you felt like saving the life of a 2 year old
boy?

Said 2 year old decided it would be great fun to press the reset button
several times on our PC when it was booting. It has 2 SATA Western
Digital hard drives in a RAID 0 array (I'm not sure if this is
relevant to the problem or not but thought I'd best throw it in)

PC will now not boot after Junior's little antics. Turning the PC on
without an XP CD in just leaves it searching in vain for a CD to boot
from.

Putting an XP cd in enables me to boot to the recovery console but it
cannot read C: I get a "An error occurred during directory
enumeration" error.

I've run chkdsk which reports "The volume appears to contain one
of more unrecoverable problems"

I've downloaded a diagnostic utility from the hard drive
manufacturer's site which reports that there are no errors with
either disk.

I've tried using the fixboot command but after using that I get the
ntldr is missing error.

Does anybody have any suggestions as to where to go from here?



I'm sure my son will buy whoever helps me out a drink at some stage
in his life!

TIA for any advice.

Given the presence of a raid controller, you may need the Raid drivers
on a floppy in order for the recovery console to work properly.

This is what the "press f6 to install mass storage drivers" thing is
about.

You should be able to download the drivers from the manufacturer, and
extract them to a floppy disk. (Yes, it HAS to be a floppy disk).

 

[John Wunderlich]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com:

PC will now not boot after Junior's little antics. Turning the PC on
without an XP CD in just leaves it searching in vain for a CD to boot
from.

This sounds like the boot order may have been changed in the BIOS.
Try entering the BIOS by pressing the appropriate key (unique to
machine) when prompted on the screen and check to make sure that the
BIOS is set up to look for a SATA/RAID drive to boot from.

HTH,
John