Our windows nt 4.0 server has a "inaccessible boot drive" we've rebooted, changed configuration, and various other things but it still isn't coming up any suggestions?
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Our windows nt 4.0 server has a "inaccessible boot drive" we've rebooted, changed configuration, and various other things but it still isn't coming up any suggestions?
Well
Sounds like the harddrive has failed, filled up..or isnt pluged in correctly.
Does the bios recognize it???
Do you have another NT machine around...you can create a boot disk.
MLF
the exact error is:
*** Stop: 0x0000007B (0x80DC0030, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Inaccessible_Boot_Device
Any suggestions?
Well
it must be seeing the hardrive if you are getting a stop error..
Do you have a repair disk?
Could the drive happen to have filled up....all windows need space on the drive to boot...
Do you have the install disks
Anything changed recently...someone randomly deleting files off the c:\
such as the boot.ini?
Why was the server reboot in the first place...or did it just crash?
Any new hardware\software?
What changed recently?
MLF
Quite odd- I unplugged it have it on the table "open" but still nothing. All cables plugged in, I'm hoping that the scuzzy hard-drive.
I dont understand what this means
Is it a SCSI drive???Quote:
Quite odd- I unplugged it have it on the table "open" but still nothing. All cables plugged in, I'm hoping that the scuzzy hard-drive.
Can you get into the SCSI controller before it boots...and verify the drive??
MLF
Not that I'm aware of, only me and my boss have access to the MDF.
Whats a MDF???
If you want help you will have to start answering my questions!!
Main Distrubution Facility, basically all the routers, switches, servers, are locked away so that only the administrators can get to them.
I did a check on the drive, and it asked to "reassign" some blocks so I did. But anything else I should do?
what about
Anything changed recently...
Why was the server reboot in the first place...or did it just crash?
Any new hardware\software?
What changed recently?
My boss was the first one in, he went upstairs after he started his machine and was inable to access the "backup", "L: Drive", and "K: Drive" the machine had that error- It restarted on it's own.
We tried a "simple" restart after the error was encountered then continued to run test "blah, blah" then it didn't work so we took it out switched another server to primary and I've got this one open running test up and down the thing. Nothings changed aside from that initial restart it did on its own (guessing it crashed and corrupted something maybe) but test almost done. Then will see if it goes back online.
The test "Passed" but- still doesn't work.
do you have a repair disk??
do you have the install disks...??
Is the disk NTFS??
do you have another NT machine handy to make a boot disk...
No other NT Machines, repair disk and install disk I believe are handy. Hm, I don't think the test is telling the truth- it found another error after it said "All Errors were Finished and Fixed." I think the Hard-Drive is dead.
Sorry to hear
if you need to recover data or files off the drive...slave it into another machine...you may still be able to read from it
You could try a parallel install...dont format..just install into a different dir then your original directory ..default is C:\WINNT
Hope you have backups :cool:
We've got backups, looks like were going to be limping around for a couple days- getting the backups onto a new hard-drive and resetting up the scanners, software, and various other things.
It's gonna take some time, thanks for your help though.