[windows2000] Re: NTDETECT Fails
- From: Steve Snyder <steven_snyder@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:52:03 -0700 (PDT)
sysinternals lets you use the full version of their
administrator's pack for a limited evaluation period -
it has pretty decent data recovery capability
--- "Jim Kenzig http://thin.net";
<jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Other thing you can do is try and install a second
> version of the OS in
> another directory and boot to that and then replace
> the NTdetect if you
> can get that far.
> JK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of Jennifer Hooper
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:47 PM
> To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: NTDETECT Fails
>
>
> I guess they figgered it was a Dev box, and said to
> hell with the
> backups. That was my first question. I think I'm
> gonna try the
> screwdriver approach... as we have no drives or
> boxes to replace it
> with. Gotta live dinosaurs. They are using the QA
> environment right
> now, so I have some time to play... but not too much
> of course. I'm
> currently trying to see if we have any of these in
> storage that we might
> be able to get some drives to replace it out of.
>
> Jen
>
> _____
>
> From: Jim Kenzig http://thin.net
> [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 11:44 AM
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: NTDETECT Fails
>
>
> What no backups? Tsk Tsk Jen, All you need to do is
> put a new drive in
> install base OS and restore if you did.... Take a
> screwdriver and give
> the drive a good thock. That should tell it whose
> boss...
> JK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of Jennifer Hooper
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 12:19 PM
> To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [windows2000] NTDETECT Fails
>
>
> Hi gang -
>
> We now return you to our regularly scheduled
> Friday Night Horror
> flick.....
>
> *crap* Ok, so I have an NT4 test server for
> Siebel. It's a mirror
> of production and has been running fine for years.
> It blue screened and
> the Siebel admin rebooted the box. It comes back up
> with Disk I/O
> Error: Status 00001000. Then NTDetect runs
> detecting hardware. It
> comes back with the Disk Error and tells me,
> NTDETECT Failed.
>
> So, I have tried to boot from the NT4 CD, same
> thing happens. Tried
> to boot from a floppy disk, same thing happens, but
> I do get my A:
> prompt. But I can't get to my C: drive. I ran
> FDisk, and I can see the
> partitions are there. But I can't access them, so I
> can't run scandisk.
> The machine can see the drives, I can access them in
> the Adaptec SCSI
> Utility. I don't know *what's* going on with this
> box... so I'm hoping
> that someone has recovered from this. This is a box
> that I would like
> to keep the OS intact if possible. I can't even
> rebuild it yet, but can
> if that's necessary.
>
> The box is a POS black box edition... no vendor,
> piecemeal parts.
> Dual PIII 850s with 1G of RAM.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jen
>
>
>
> Jennifer Hooper
> Peregrine Systems, Inc.
> Sr. Network Engineer
>
>
> mailto:jennifer.hooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jennifer.hooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
>
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