W2k boot problem

[promicro]

Hi all,

i had to recreate my hard drive because of a bad partition, and since
then i have not been able to boot my system without the erd diskette in
the a: drive.

without it i get the error message 'windows 2000 could not start,
ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupted..'

i have tried everything in the MS support faq's and have replaced my
ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll, and have checked my boot.ini with no success.
i have also run all of the options in the rescue routines and the sfc
/scan command. i've had this problem in the past and corrected it with
either fixmbr and/or fixboot in the rescue mode, but not this time.

my system has an ata 80 gig c drive and a sata 200 gig drive with the 80
gig as drive f: and the 200 partitioned as c: d: and e:. i have put the
boot.ini on both drives just in case, and checked every boot.ini on the
system, and even copied the files from the erd disk to the c: and f:
drives with no success.

if anyone can tell me what else to try it would be greatly appreciated...

tia rob

 

[Dave Patrick]

"i had to recreate my hard drive because of a bad partition"

Details of exactly what took place here may help.

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[promicro]

"i had to recreate my hard drive because of a bad partition"

Details of exactly what took place here may help.

thanx for your reply - installing a new partition (linux) flagged the
entire drive as bad and i had to reformat the entire drive and restore
my win2000 partition after which the problems began...

Rob

 

[Dave Patrick]

Sounds like there is no longer a primary partition. You can verify with a
win98 startup disk, then run fdisk to see what you've got.

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[promicro]

Sounds like there is no longer a primary partition. You can verify with
a win98 startup disk, then run fdisk to see what you've got.

hi dave,

i tried this and also tried replacing the mbr several times but no luck
- the system should boot on my 2nd sata drive but i'm sure it's trying
to boot from my 1st drive...

i have checked the bios setup and the 2nd drive is in the 1st boot position.

thanks, rob

 

[Dave Patrick]

hi dave,

i tried this and also tried replacing the mbr several times but no luck -
the system should boot on my 2nd sata drive but i'm sure it's trying to
boot from my 1st drive...

*** You'll need to get to the bottom of this (hardware/configuration
problem)

i have checked the bios setup and the 2nd drive is in the 1st boot
position.

*** Is the a primary active partition present?


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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