Trying to Recover a Crashed System

I had a box with two Win2K SP4 installations on different HDs. The C drive
developed a fault that left it just about useless and I had to replace it.
The second drive will not boot up now. Using its (ERD) repair disk does not
work.

I have been rebuilding the new drive C but as time goes by I wish I could
get the D drive running again.

The boot.ini file has :

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Win2K on C: Drive" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Win2K on D: Drive" /fastdetect

There are only two installations.

When I try to boot to D I get

"Win2000 could not start because of computer disk hardware configuration.
Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. "

Suggestions please.

RFR wrote:


boot from your cd and go to the repair console

then try issuing the command fixboot

might as well try fixmbr while you are at it

philo wrote:

Thanks Philo. I did many things like you suggest
here but I got nowhere.
Mike hit the situation very close to the "sweet spot."

Try this syntax:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Win2K on D: Drive" /fastdetect

RFR wrote:

--
Mike Walsh

You do have a stroke of genius Mike :-)

The D drive OS rose from the dead but with a few
hiccups. At one point the installation stopped
with that dreadful blue screen and a message:
"SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\dxapi.sys device
driver could not locate the entry point
KeyIsAttachedProcess in driver ntoskernel.exe" At
that point I had a sinking feeling but soon
afterwards the login screen arrived. I input my
pwd and it all opened up again. Phew! It had
several other stops, some with messages. However,
getting it running again is a huge relief.

Now after all that excitement, I'll spend much
more time with this little box. I'll just keep it
running and I'll sleep beside it at night to
protect it :-)

What is the simplest way to keep a copy of this
system so that, if it ever went belly up again, I
could write it back over the mess - or clean up
the mess and restore a precise copy of the
installation?

It has been years since I had anything to do with
Disc( ) and Rdisk( ) and I had forgotton which
referred to the physical drive. Great work on your
part Mike.

Thanks again.


Mike Walsh wrote:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Win2K
on D: Drive" /fastdetect
on different HDs. The C drive
useless and I had to replace it.
its (ERD) repair disk does not
time goes by I wish I could
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Win2K
on C: Drive" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Win2K
on D: Drive" /fastdetect
disk hardware configuration.
boot path and disk hardware. "