System Won't Boot

[Guest Matthew White]

Hi Everyone,

 

I used Paragon Partition Manager to redistribute free space from my D: to my

C: system partition. The drives were a dynamic set of 2 disks. Everything

appeared to go along fine, but now the system won't boot. I am getting a

stop error (stop 0x0000007b), which I believe to be that the system can't

find the boot partition. When I boot into the recovery console, I can see

all the data, so there is nothing wrong with the disks. How do I set the

system straight so that it knows how to boot up? I am running a chkdsk now.

The support group from Paragon does not open for another 8 hours, so I was

hoping someone could help out.

 

Regards,

 

Matthew White

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: System Won't Boot

 

I wouldn't have done that or anything destructive until you know the reason

why. (but of course you have the backup you can restore) Usually means a

drive controller issue or possibly a boot.ini issue.

 

Try creating a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2003

the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows

2003 machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the

floppy), and copy Windows 2003 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)\Windows

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Windows 2003 0,1"

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="Windows 2003 0,2"

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\Windows="Windows 2003 1,1"

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\Windows="Windows 2003 1,2"

 

 

Another possibility is to try loading the controller driver also from

floppy. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2003 the disk must

contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2003 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 2003 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)\Windows="Windows 2003 0,1"

scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="Windows 2003 0,2"

scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Windows 2003 1,1"

scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="Windows 2003 1,2"

 

 

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Regards,

 

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

"Matthew White" wrote:

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I used Paragon Partition Manager to redistribute free space from my D: to

> my

> C: system partition. The drives were a dynamic set of 2 disks.

> Everything

> appeared to go along fine, but now the system won't boot. I am getting a

> stop error (stop 0x0000007b), which I believe to be that the system can't

> find the boot partition. When I boot into the recovery console, I can see

> all the data, so there is nothing wrong with the disks. How do I set the

> system straight so that it knows how to boot up? I am running a chkdsk

> now.

> The support group from Paragon does not open for another 8 hours, so I was

> hoping someone could help out.

>

> Regards,

>

> Matthew White

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: System Won't Boot

 

 

"Matthew White" <MatthewWhite@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:35D2B698-1A0A-4019-946F-8D7645F315DE@microsoft.com...

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I used Paragon Partition Manager to redistribute free space from my D: to

> my

> C: system partition. The drives were a dynamic set of 2 disks.

> Everything

> appeared to go along fine, but now the system won't boot. I am getting a

> stop error (stop 0x0000007b), which I believe to be that the system can't

> find the boot partition. When I boot into the recovery console, I can see

> all the data, so there is nothing wrong with the disks. How do I set the

> system straight so that it knows how to boot up? I am running a chkdsk

> now.

> The support group from Paragon does not open for another 8 hours, so I was

> hoping someone could help out.

>

> Regards,

>

> Matthew White

 

If this was my server and if staff depended on its availability

on Monday then I would rebuild it from backup right now.

Somehow I do not think that Paragon will be able to give you

a quick and easy solution. If you rebuild it on a set of spare

disks then you can still use the original disks in case Paragon

can resolve the problem at the last minute.

[Guest Matthew White]

Re: System Won't Boot

 

I looks like the redistribution of free space by the Paragon software went

bad somehow. When I boot into recovery mode, I see a C: drive (same as

before), a D: drive (same as before), and an F: drive (this is exactly the

same as the D: drive, but also has a boot.ini file). It looks like this was

some sort of staging area for Paragon. Perhaps that boot.ini is causing a

problem? I don't have a floppy drive, or another W2K3 server, so right now I

am in a bit of trouble.

 

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> I wouldn't have done that or anything destructive until you know the reason

> why. (but of course you have the backup you can restore) Usually means a

> drive controller issue or possibly a boot.ini issue.

>

> Try creating a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2003

> the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows

> 2003 machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the

> floppy), and copy Windows 2003 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)\Windows

> [operating systems]

> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Windows 2003 0,1"

> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="Windows 2003 0,2"

> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\Windows="Windows 2003 1,1"

> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\Windows="Windows 2003 1,2"

>

>

> Another possibility is to try loading the controller driver also from

> floppy. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2003 the disk must

> contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2003 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 2003 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)\Windows="Windows 2003 0,1"

> scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="Windows 2003 0,2"

> scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="Windows 2003 1,1"

> scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="Windows 2003 1,2"

>

>

> --

>

> Regards,

>

> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

> Microsoft Certified Professional

> Microsoft MVP [Windows]

> http://www.microsoft.com/protect

>

> "Matthew White" wrote:

> > Hi Everyone,

> >

> > I used Paragon Partition Manager to redistribute free space from my D: to

> > my

> > C: system partition. The drives were a dynamic set of 2 disks.

> > Everything

> > appeared to go along fine, but now the system won't boot. I am getting a

> > stop error (stop 0x0000007b), which I believe to be that the system can't

> > find the boot partition. When I boot into the recovery console, I can see

> > all the data, so there is nothing wrong with the disks. How do I set the

> > system straight so that it knows how to boot up? I am running a chkdsk

> > now.

> > The support group from Paragon does not open for another 8 hours, so I was

> > hoping someone could help out.

> >

> > Regards,

> >

> > Matthew White

>

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: System Won't Boot

 

All you need is the server install CD-Rom and another NTish computer. Format

the floppy on any NTish machine, copy (expand) the files ntdetect.com and

ntldr from the install CD-Rom, create the boot.ini with any text editor such

as notepad.exe

 

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Regards,

 

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

"Matthew White" wrote:

>I looks like the redistribution of free space by the Paragon software went

> bad somehow. When I boot into recovery mode, I see a C: drive (same as

> before), a D: drive (same as before), and an F: drive (this is exactly the

> same as the D: drive, but also has a boot.ini file). It looks like this

> was

> some sort of staging area for Paragon. Perhaps that boot.ini is causing a

> problem? I don't have a floppy drive, or another W2K3 server, so right

> now I

> am in a bit of trouble.