Basic mount ntfs scsi drive sorta ntfs4dos

[Barry Parrish]

proliant 4500
windows 2000server

Hi. How is everybody

anyone know a way to mount a scsi hard drive from a cold boot? I'd like to use a 3.5 floppy

wants to boot to dos, mount ntfs drive
and do a simple del of corrupt boot.ini
and rename backupboot.ini baddabing!

i edited the boot.ini a couple days ago.
hasn't booted since. it's been running for a couple years now... till I edited the boot.ini

I had edited the boot.ini, to remove a failed win 2003 server install attempt...

so
on the boot... i had to choose which os I wanted... however... 2003 being in that boot option (2000 is the actual working os) is not even a valid os, it showed up after the failed installation...

so.. the actual boot.ini, does not really carry a record of that boot option entry...

so when I edited the boot.ini I removed the one line that actually spoke of win 2000

:(

it's been so long since I dug on this machine, i forget how I even installed win2000

i've got what I believe to be the drivers for the smart array drive controller

i've tried 3 different mount ntfs drive w/scsi support...

just looking to do a simple edit del and ren
will put it back where it was.

in FACT! the one program called, ntfs4dos
WILL mount one of the 4 drives...
but it refuses to mount the C drive

gives me error... no umb's found
gives me error... volume on C is Di
(Di may be german, lol, most of the text that rolls during ntfs4dos boot is german)

says... beilebige (arbitrary) tastes druenken

lol

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whew!

when I did successfully install win 2000 back in the day, it seems like I had to edit the config.sys on a win98se boot disk in order to load the smart array drive controller device... is that what I did?

maybe I should also edit another file on a basic boot disk

Thank you kindly

[McKaamos]

Maybe your C: partition is bad.
The ERD Commander CD (by Sysinternals) has software to fix NTFS partitions.
It can also boot a Windows-like enviroment in wich you can do things like copy and move files, but also edit plaintext files (like boo.ini)

[Barry Parrish]

Thanks...

I need to use 3.5 floppy as the cd drive will also require more editing to the boot disk..

(at least a 98boot disk doesn't give me cd access)

i edited the boo.ini, when I rebooted, it wouldn't boot.

we'll see

[Prashant (I am Back)]

Hi,

Refer to this
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/peboot.htm
It will boot in GUI then you can do it.

Prashant S.

[Barry Parrish]

Thanks

why does that page look familiar

mmm

so you think a bad boot.ini might keep a ntfs volume from being mounted

Im able to mount the next hotswap drive

so I got the idea to swap C for the spot that was getting mounted...

but.. it did mount the old C spot, and again would not mount C...

but as I say, the drive was just fine
till I edited the boot.ini, and on that very next boot.. she say bye bye..

[Prashant (I am Back) · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Like you told in post server stop after changes in boot.ini then reverting back will help.
So this is the offline method u can use.

Assign point if that was helpfull

Prashant s.