ChristianR

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blue screen, saying: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_CONTROLLER

have checked raid, everything reports back ok.

have tried safe boot, same thing, have tried last known good same thing, have tried safe boot command prompt same thing.
Have also tried booting off win2k cd, doing a recover, however says
"setup did not find any hard drives installed on this computer.
make sure you hard drives are powered up and connected properly ........ etc


any suggestions? this is our exchange2k server!!!!

ChristianR

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have booted off a win98 boot disk, and ran fdisk, it can see the NTFS partition for the bootup drive which is mirrored ( C: )

[Edited by ChristianR - 8/19/2002 6:45:41 PM]

ChristianR

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sorry it actually says:
*** STOP: 0x00000007b (0xF6C2B848,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

HHxx

This thingy??

ChristianR

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that is xp, but seems what i am having - thanks.

now.. how can i check the boot.ini/do a chkdsk if i cant actually load up the recovery console to do it??

[Edited by ChristianR - 8/19/2002 6:56:40 PM]

IWatkins

Tools like NTFSDOS Professional v4.0 or NTRecover v1.0 from: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml may be of use ? (Cost option though)

NTFSDOS looks useful, read only version (free) might get you to the point where you can ID the problem, but if it is simply a duff Boot.ini you'll need the write version to fix it.

Cheers

Ian

IWatkins

Also take a look at this: http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US;Q119467&

ChristianR

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thanks - boot.ini looks fine.

i believe that the scsi drivers have got curropt inside win2k - hence the error message i am getting. how can this be sorted with out a re-install/?

ChristianR

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anyway to access the registry in dos?

don't fancy doing this with the mirrored drives!!

http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US;Q302098&

HHxx

Christian, yhm on ruellan.co.uk

Hope it helps

H

ChristianR

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ok i can boot it up with erd, and also i can boot it up off the win2k cd, if i press f6 and specify scsi drivers.

so i need to try and get win2k to use these new scsi drivers, anyway i can do this? from either the recovery console or another why?

ChristianR

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anyone??

IWatkins

Hi Christian,

Sorry, cannot offer anymore help here as I've never been where you are.

I'm thinking that once into the recovery console there must be a way to tell it you want to repair the system by passing it the scsi drivers. But how, yeah, well that is the problem.

I've never used the recovery console, so I'm clutching at straws. If you can access the drives at this stage can you not simply place the driver files onto the hard disk in the correct location ?

Also, with the ERD isn't their a Repair option ? Have you been through this and tryed to install 3rd party SCSI drivers ?

Pure guesswork I'm afraid.

Some other stuff that might help:
http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/In...ArticleID=8918

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/inst...rw2k/page1.htm

Cheers

Ian

ChristianR

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all sorted - thanks to everyone that helped!