You might have a chance booting with a 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; and possibly ntbootdd.sys. 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)\winnt
[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"
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| I have tried to take out my hard drive from the server as
| the mother board as failed. The motherboard had an on
| board SCSI controller. When installing the drive in
| another server it will not boot. It will get so far then
| blue screen with boot device failure. How make the drive
| boot with the new scsi controller in the new machine?
|
| Many thanks
