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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc Date: 1998/12/14
> > I tried "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)" any may other combinations > > in boot.ini nothing did it. > > With this line you're trying to boot off the slave disk. I'm not sure where > your NT directory is stored but if it's in the NT partition on the master > drive the line has to be "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)". For some odd > reasons NT starts counting physical drives from 0 but partitions from 1. You > may trying to get it back to work by using the "Repair boot sector" option > in setup.
Yes, but booting this partition is NOT my problem. I could boot DOS and WinNT from the master disk. I could boot WinNT from the slave disk if I make it a master disk. But booting this slave from the master fails …
Christoph
>SCSI. Maybe NT can't boot off IDE slaves?
\WINNT Boot may be on ANY Partition on ANY Drive. The System Drive where the System files NTDETECT.COM, NTLDR, and Boot.ini reside must be the first Primary Active Partition. You just have to get the ARC Path to \WINNT correct. Changes such as these are made to a boot-diskette which has the NT System Files (NTDETECT.COM, NTLDR and Boot.ini) in order to boot to a mirror of the Boot Partition (containing \WINNT) should the Original Boot Disk fail. You might try getting it to work by this procedure:
Look at the slave drive in Disk Administrator and note the location of the partition where \WINNT resides. Point Boot.ini ARC PATH to this location.
Format a floppy disk with NT.
Copy NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and Boot.ini to this diskette.
Edit the Boot.ini on the Diskette to point to the "other" \WINNT location.
This is safer because you are not editing anything on the Hard Disk. You can edit Boot.ini on the HD once you have Boot.ini corrected on the Floppy.
Carl Cox Systems Support Engineer Applied Retail Solutions, Inc.