Win2k Recovery Console? how to get it to do the job

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I had to move a hard drive from one PC to another cause the previous PC
broke down. The drive is an ATA-100 drive. The old PC was using IDE
controller that had ATA-100 I think. Anyway, the new PC I think might
be ATA-66.

But anyway, the drive goes in fine, but the computer won't boot. It
just do the POST, and sits there with the blank screen. I am wondering
maybe because ATA-66 controller won't be able to read a drive that was
formated under ATA-100.

I boooted up a win2K CD and went into the recovery console and I can
see the partition with all the folds eg. C:\winnt C:\Program Files
C:\Documents and SEttings etc. etc. But damn, the thing won't boot.

I really need to boot into the drive cause I spent hours installing
everything onto it and don't want to reformat and reinstall Win2k and
every freakin softwares all over again. I just want to use the drive
as it is. Your help is really really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
Joseph said:
I had to move a hard drive from one PC to another cause the previous PC
broke down. The drive is an ATA-100 drive. The old PC was using IDE
controller that had ATA-100 I think. Anyway, the new PC I think might
be ATA-66.

But anyway, the drive goes in fine, but the computer won't boot. It
just do the POST, and sits there with the blank screen. I am wondering
maybe because ATA-66 controller won't be able to read a drive that was
formated under ATA-100.

I boooted up a win2K CD and went into the recovery console and I can
see the partition with all the folds eg. C:\winnt C:\Program Files
C:\Documents and SEttings etc. etc. But damn, the thing won't boot.

I really need to boot into the drive cause I spent hours installing
everything onto it and don't want to reformat and reinstall Win2k and
every freakin softwares all over again. I just want to use the drive
as it is. Your help is really really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Try this:
- Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com.
- Run fdisk.exe to set the new partition "active". It will work for FAT
and for NTFS partitions.
 
Joseph said:
I had to move a hard drive from one PC to another cause the previous PC
broke down. The drive is an ATA-100 drive. The old PC was using IDE
controller that had ATA-100 I think. Anyway, the new PC I think might
be ATA-66.

But anyway, the drive goes in fine, but the computer won't boot. It
just do the POST, and sits there with the blank screen. I am
wondering
maybe because ATA-66 controller won't be able to read a drive that was
formated under ATA-100.

I boooted up a win2K CD and went into the recovery console and I can
see the partition with all the folds eg. C:\winnt C:\Program Files
C:\Documents and SEttings etc. etc. But damn, the thing won't boot.

I really need to boot into the drive cause I spent hours installing
everything onto it and don't want to reformat and reinstall Win2k and
every freakin softwares all over again. I just want to use the drive
as it is. Your help is really really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249694
 
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