Re: Boot problems

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 06:01:08 -0700

How exactly do I create the floppy if I can not get into
windows? Can I do it from the repair console?

Thank you for your help.
Aaron
>-----Original Message-----
>ARC Path
>
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)
>
>multi(0) <<<< Controller Number
>disk(0) <<<< Always 0
>rdisk(0) <<<< Disk ordinal # of disk on adapter
>Partition(2) <<<< Partition number 0-3
>
>it sounds like you have the partition number wrong, this
is almost the exact
>error message you would get if your partition number is
wrong. Check to make
>sure you are booting off the correct partition. If you do
not know and just
>want to check, you can create a boot floppy....
>
>Create a NTFS Boot Floppy
> 1.. Format floppy with a NT/2000/2003 box
> 2.. Copy NTLDR / NTDETECT /Boot.ini
>You can then change the boot.ini oon the floppy.
>
>
>
>--
>Kyle Lang [MSFT]
>This posting is provided "As Is" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>
>"Aaron" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:d28501c439c2$b4b0f0b0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> About 2 months ago, I started building a new system. It
>> is a 2.6Gig Processor with 256 Meg of Ram and an 80 Gig
>> Harddrive. I have been trying to load Windows 2000 Pro
on
>> the machine but it comes up with the error that the
>> ntoskrnl.exe file is either missing or corrupt. So I
went
>> to the microsoft website to look for a possible
solution.
>> I found the article about the boot file being
misdirected
>> to the wrong partition, so I threw in the Win2k cd and
>> went to repair. I was able to fix the attributes, but
>> have no idea how to edit the boot.ini file itself. I
>> checked the boot file on another computer that runs
win2k
>> just fine. The only difference in the boot.ini files
was
>> the timeout=xx. The operational computer had
timeout=30.
>> Mine has timeout=1. Could this be the source of my
>> problems or is there something else?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron
>
>
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>

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