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dude said:
Everything in that article I have tried. I think the
problem is that the previous hardware was SCSI RAID and
now the hardware is IDE. It seems like the new DC system
state wants to load SCSI RAID drivers automatically, but I
cannot find this out for sure.
I need to start a boot file but I do not know how, so I
can confirm that these SCSI idea is indeed the problem,
than I can locate those files to delete. Anyways that
would be my plan of attack.
Every type of repair does not work so far, can anyone tell
me how to start a boot.log of some sort so I can see what
is loading prior to the blue screen, thanks?
You mean you ran windows setup again and it did not discover the IDE
controllers? That's odd. That's one of the very first things it does.
If there is any way to put the installation on the old machine, you can
follow this article and it will allow you to port it between different
machines with different IDE controllers:
htpp://support.microsoft.com/?id=271965.
I use that all the time with changing around Ghosted images of machines on
different hardware. Even boots up on laptops.
Is it still blue screening or just coming up with can't find ntoskernel.exe?
If it is, you ran setup and it still didn't fix it, I would start looking at
the boot.ini file. Maybe the ARC path is incorrect. That would have changed
if it was originally SCSI and now it's IDE. Apparently in this instance,
maybe not the MULTI portion, but the RDISK identifier would be different. If
the drive is on the Primary IDE controller and it's the master, I would
suggest this default ARC Path:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000"
/fastdetect
More info on the ARC path. These were written for NT4, but this has not
changed with any of the NT based OSs (NT351, NT4, Win2k, Win2k3, XP):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;102873
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;155222
If this is the problem, and to determine if it is, you could create a
bootable floppy for this. Just format a floppy under W2k, then copy these 3
files on it and boot it up.
ntldr
boot.ini
ntdetect.com
If it doesn't boot (due to the ARC path being incorrect), then just shut it
down, put the floppy in a working machine, adjust the ARC path and try again
until you get it booted.
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Regards,
Ace
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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
