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Thanks very much for your instructions again. The server boots up normally.
"Dave Patrick" <mail@Nospam.DSPatrick.com> wrote in message
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> Try creating a boot disk. 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), and copy Windows 2000 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)\WINNT
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,1"
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,2"
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,1"
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,2"
>
> Another possibility is to try loading the controller driver also from
> 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. 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, or ultra DMA, or ATA100, or raid,
> or serial ATA 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"
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
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> "Diane Walker" wrote:
> | The backup job did not complete running last night. So, I canceled the
> job.
> | However, the job did not want to be canceled. So, I decided to reboot
> the
> | server.
> |
> | My Windows 2000 Server no longer booted up normally. When it was
> booting
> | up, it flashed Windows 2000 logo. It never got to the logon screen.
> |
> | It did not boot up in Safe Mode either. The server kept displaying the
> ARC
> | path when I booted it in Safe Mode.
> |
> | I also tried to boot up by using the Last Known Configuration. The
> server
> | kept displaying the ARC path. Do you have any suggestions on how I can
> | bring Windows 2000 Server up normally? Thanks.
> |
> |
>
>
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