Re: Server keeps restarting

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No, you can't. The problem is that the boot process can't even SEE the hard disk, since it has no drivers for it.

What you _can_ do is use your original install media, press F6 when it first boots up (you'll see the prompt at the bottom), and load the drivers from a floppy. Then, with the drivers loaded, you can open a recovery console and copy them back to where they need to be.

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"rhesus" <rhesus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:98FC3B40-174A-49EB-B379-FB2D79AB1FEF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i guess I can also use the recovery console to copy the driver back to the
original folder (drivers folder). Wouldn't this be much easier?

"Anna Clark" wrote:

Hi rhesus:

I would only be guessing here, but do you think that moving the disk
controller driver out of the path that Windows searches on start may have
something to do with this?

Seems to me you can either do a parallel install of Windows and put the raid
driver back, or you can put that drive in another NT class machine to access
the folders. Since we know that it is (probably) part of a RAID set, moving
it is most likely not an option, so you could also put in any drive, tell
the bios to boot on that, install a dummy copy of Windows and the raid
driver, then you should be able to access the drives and put the driver
back.

Regards:

Anna Clark


"rhesus" <rhesus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0621F0A3-865A-4BF3-91DB-EEE0E35A7411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I was looking into some troubleshooting of failure to shutdown.
>
> I used sigver to remove four unsigned drivers (put them in a new folder
> inside \drivers.) One was the a320raid.sys driver, the other 3 I didn't
> write
> down.
>
> When the system was rebooting I enabled boot logging.
>
> The welcome screen comes on, scrolls through exactly 2.5 scrolls of the
> scroll bar then reboots.
>
> I enabled a stop error report. It was 0x73. I couldn't find anything
> relevant on this.
>
> I've tried last known. No joy.




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