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April 17, 2006 at 09:11 AM
analyticus

W2K Boot Problem

by analyticus . Updated 20 years, 3 months ago

I’m running W2K Server (SP4) with 2 Internal SCSI HDD’s. I used to have 3 HDD’s, but one of them (C: – where I used to boot from) failed a while back and I’ve been booting from a floppy ever since…

Of my existing HDD’s, I have D: (disc 0) which I would like now to make the primary drive w/active partition and boot from. It has all the necessary files for W2K to boot, ie. boot.ini, ntldr, etc. but the server will not boot from it.

I’m guessing I’ve got to rebuild the Master boot record somehow to tell the drive that it’s bootable.

Further complicating my situation is that I do not have the OS CD (“lost” before I started with the company) so I can’t re-install W2K.

Will fdisk /mbr fix my problem?
Any suggestions / answers?

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