Windows Emergency Boot Disk

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Bob Stein

I have made a boot disk as described in Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article 101668, but it does not work. My Windows 2000
system boots from a MS-DOS partition (drive C), with Win2k
in a FAT32 partition (drive E). It boots into Win2k or DOS
6.2. When I boot up on the floppy boot disk, the
following occurs:
a. If Win2k is selected, an error message appears
stating that there is a hardware error and hangs up the
computer.
b. If DOS 6.2 is selected, the "MS-DOS starting" line
appears, then the computer hands up.

Suggestions?
 
Obviously I am trying to make a boot disk as described in
article 101668.

-----Original Message-----
What is it you're trying to do?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Bob Stein said:
I have made a boot disk as described in Microsoft Knowledge
Base Article 101668, but it does not work. My Windows 2000
system boots from a MS-DOS partition (drive C), with Win2k
in a FAT32 partition (drive E). It boots into Win2k or DOS
6.2. When I boot up on the floppy boot disk, the
following occurs:
a. If Win2k is selected, an error message appears
stating that there is a hardware error and hangs up the
computer.
b. If DOS 6.2 is selected, the "MS-DOS starting" line
appears, then the computer hands up.

Suggestions?
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OK then ...... not at all obvious what you're trying to do, but; For the
floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must contain the "NT" boot
sector. Format a diskette (on an NT machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot
sector gets written to the floppy), and copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and
boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys. Edit the boot.ini to give it a
correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.
 
You have hit the nail on the head. I am virtually certain
that my drive letters change when I boot from a floppy in
lieu of the boot partition. However, since I cannot get
into the machine, I am unable to determine the proper path.
All of the files that you mention are on the floppy, which
was formatted in Win2k.
-----Original Message-----
OK then ...... not at all obvious what you're trying to do, but; For the
floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must contain the "NT" boot
sector. Format a diskette (on an NT machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot
sector gets written to the floppy), and copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and
boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys. Edit the boot.ini to give it a
correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Bob Stein said:
Obviously I am trying to make a boot disk as described in
article 101668.
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OK, it sounds like you are just trying to make the boot disk boot win2k from
your E drive.

You will have a file on the disk called "boot.ini"

it will look something like this

[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="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect

you need to make sure that your multi,disk,rdisk, and partition settings are
correct for that specific machine

You said that e: is your win2k install, is that on a seperate hard disk, or
just a seperate partition? I will assume that D: is your CDrom.

regards,

Steve Gresham
 
Hello Everyone:

Please boot from either Windows2000 Cd or Windows2003 server cd or Windows
Xp pro cd into recovery console
Logon to e:\winnt
look @ the root of eihter e:\ drive or c:\ drive and should boot.ini file
@ the c:\ prompt type following command
type boot.ini
it will show you the boot path


Thanks,
Ankit Oberoi
Robert S. Stein said:
You have hit the nail on the head. I am virtually certain
that my drive letters change when I boot from a floppy in
lieu of the boot partition. However, since I cannot get
into the machine, I am unable to determine the proper path.
All of the files that you mention are on the floppy, which
was formatted in Win2k.
-----Original Message-----
OK then ...... not at all obvious what you're trying to do, but; For the
floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must contain the "NT" boot
sector. Format a diskette (on an NT machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot
sector gets written to the floppy), and copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and
boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys. Edit the boot.ini to give it a
correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Bob Stein said:
Obviously I am trying to make a boot disk as described in
article 101668.
Click to expand...


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