Windows 2000 issue on Highpoint 370 RAID controller

From: Indy Tech (indytechREMOVE_at_att.net)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:38:41 GMT

Cross posting to 3 groups. If there's a better suited group for this
question, please tell point me to it.

Ok, here's the problem I created today...

I am working on a system with an Epox 8K5A2+ motherboard with the Highpoint
370 RAID controller. This box is not currently using RAID, and contains 3
IDE drives. One is set up as the Primary Master on the first RAID
controller, the second drive is Secondary Master on the RAID controller, and
the third drive is Primary Master on the standard IDE controller. The OS is
Windows 2000 Professional.

Norton Disk Doctor today asked if I wanted to correct a problem with a
non-bootable partition, and without thinking much I clicked Yes. (doh!) The
box then rebooted and couldn't find a boot drive. After much screwing
around, I booted off a DOS disk and checked with Fdisk. Both the original
boot disk on the first Highpoint RAID slot and the disk on the primary IDE
slot have their partitions marked Active. Apparently the box can't decide
which disk to use and when it reaches the point of polling the drives to
search for a boot record, it just stops and sits there.

If I disconnect the IDE drive, the system boots fine off the drive on the
first Highpoint slot. Reconnect the IDE drive, boot hangs forever.

I have gone into the HPT370 BIOS to make sure the first drive is identified
as the Boot drive.

Lil help? Any relevant input is appreciated.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Boot Problem
    ... Was either disk set up as a Microsoft dynamic disk? ... Do not change the boot sector signature. ... I ensure all OK by swapping over drives. ... installing XP as it insisted there was no drive to install itself on! ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: 2 drives needed to boot - how to fix
    ... my cloned drive and my system won't boot. ... seems my system wants both hard drives to be able to boot. ... Which is your primary master disk - the old or the new disk? ... Could you, in effect, start over by making a fresh install of the XP OS ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: NTLDR is missing
    ... Make sure that there are no disks in any removable drives when you boot. ... NTLDR is missing, why does it happen? ... Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
  • Re: [SLE] Problems with initrd after mkinitrd
    ... A disk can have three real heads and report a dozen or a hundred! ... > natural metric for partitioning drives that use LBA. ... > - One, less frequent, is the failure of some of the cloned drives to boot ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: Grub hangs - two hard drives and a CD
    ... > What you wrote is all based on a wrong assumption that grub numbers drives ... > that the BIOS will call to boot an OS. ... The Bios calls to read disk require the register DL to ...
    (comp.os.linux.setup)
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