Re: What in the heck am I doing wrong? NTFS boot disk

William,

>I thought bootprep was only for FAT drives...

It is. Where did I say otherwise?

> But I went ahead and created a
> new active NTFS partition on the drive,

Di you do that on the target?

> ran bootprep on it,

You don't need bootprep with NTFS as the BTFS bootsector knows that and how
to load ntldr.

> copied over the
> image files and edited boot.ini the way you said to. The only thing I
> didn't
> do was format it from DOS. Still no success. The drive won't boot.

Did you see anything now with the new boot.ini? Did you see the XP OS choice
menu?

> Do I really have to format these drives from DOS in order to get them to
> boot?

You most likely have to (it sometimes veries on the BIOS, MB and HDD brands
you use) to keep the right disk geometry factors.

> This seems like a very strange situation...

Well.. It is not. If you search MS KB database, you wil see that they
recommend using DOS for preparing media for NT/2K/XP.

KM

> "KM" wrote:
>
>> To have more reliable process for deploying the image on your HDDs
>> (preparing the media to boot) you may want to switch to DOS and use
>> fdisk/format there. That will keep necessary disk geometry settings while
>> patitioning and formating the drives.
>> Then you can convert it to nfts if required. If not, use bootprep to be
>> able
>> to load up the ntldr at boot time.
>>
>> To know where you are getting stuck at POST or later, place a non-zero
>> timeout value in boo.ini. If XP boot menu appears, you get to ntldr.
>


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