Modifying the boot.ini

aftermath · Mar 24, 2007

I have received the error

windows errrr said:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem
Could not read from selected boot disk
Check boot path and disk hardware... etc

after adding a second IDE disk

C: --> master channel IDE 2
J:/winnt --> (%SYSVOL%/%systemroot%) on SCSI raid card
new blank disk --> slave channel IDE 2

I have a SCSI disk array that is not bootable by default, my work around is to have an IDE disk with these files on it:

cmd said:
C:\>dir /a
Volume in drive C is BOOT
Volume Serial Number is 68C1-96A5

Directory of C:\

18/11/2006 16:23 192 Copy of boot.ini
17/09/2006 14:08 0 CONFIG.SYS
17/09/2006 14:08 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
17/09/2006 14:08 0 IO.SYS
17/09/2006 14:08 0 MSDOS.SYS
17/09/2006 14:14 <DIR> Intel11.1
17/09/2006 14:40 <DIR> msdownld.tmp
18/11/2006 16:23 192 BOOT.PCP
19/09/2006 17:23 <DIR> Recycled
28/10/2006 00:07 512 drmHeader.bin
23/03/2007 23:07 1,024 .rnd
20/06/2003 12:00 150,528 arcldr.exe
20/06/2003 12:00 163,840 arcsetup.exe
20/06/2003 12:00 214,432 ntldr
20/06/2003 12:00 34,724 NTDETECT.COM
18/11/2006 16:23 192 boot.ini
19/11/2006 00:23 5,303,311 AVG7QT.DAT
20/11/2006 11:58 <DIR> ATI
28/11/2006 13:44 <DIR> ATTO
13/12/2006 20:46 <DIR> POP3.CD
23/12/2006 21:40 <DIR> Program Files
04/03/2007 21:30 18 New Text Document.txt
16/03/2007 20:37 64 New Text Document (2).txt
16 File(s) 5,869,029 bytes
7 Dir(s) 10,778,624 bytes free

(some are irelivent to this; yes yes evil drm on my C: )

this allows me to boot windows on an un-bootable volume.

My second IDE drive is a removable one in a caddy and so my boot.ini must allow it to boot with and with out this disk installed in the PC.

The removable disk may have one, many or as it is atm no partitions on it.

My boot.ini

boot dot ini said:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

What must I add to this to allow me to chose a configuration that would boot with or with out a removable IDE volume? ( I can all ready boot without)

Thanks in advanced

aftermath · Mar 25, 2007

trial and error

i first tried to use scsi ie

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
SCSI(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

also tried

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
SCSI(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

but it seams to defy convention and

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

is the solution I don't understand why it becomes disk two or why it looks for the IDE disk, must be NTLDR or NTDETECT it looks for.

Jigga · Mar 25, 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/99743

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...serv/reskit/prork/prbd_std_ccef.mspx?mfr=true

According to this, if the scsi has no built-in bios or the scsi bios is not the first to load then you'd use the multi tag instead of the scsi tag.

Also, I think it's looks for a disk two because your two ide are going to be 0, 1 and the scsi becomes 2.

aftermath · Mar 25, 2007

Ah i get it thanks for that
and the technet link is a bit clearer than what i found
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102873/EN-US/

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