W2k boot problem

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

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"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
 
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
 
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]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
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