W2k boot problem

[Guest 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

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: W2k boot problem

 

"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" wrote:

> 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

[Guest promicro]

Re: W2k boot problem

 

Dave Patrick wrote:

> "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

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: W2k boot problem

 

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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Regards,

 

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

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

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"promicro" wrote:

> 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

[Guest promicro]

Re: W2k boot problem

 

Dave Patrick wrote:

> 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

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: W2k boot problem

 

"promicro" wrote:

> 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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Regards,

 

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

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

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