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Inaccessible_boot_device after installing service pack 6a

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Jose Luis - 18 Aug 2004 07:55 GMT
Hello,
I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 with Windows NT 4.0 Server, Service pack 3.
I have upgraded it to Service pack 6a, but after restarting, the system
crash with an "Inaccesible_Boot_Device" error on blue screen.

What can I do?

Thanks
Bjorn Landemoo - 18 Aug 2004 19:33 GMT
Jose

Probably, your disk controller driver has been overwritten with another
version. See if this MS Knowledge Base article can help you:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=214810

Best regards

Bjorn
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>Hello,
>I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 with Windows NT 4.0 Server, Service pack 3.
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>
>Thanks
nospam.please@ualberta.ca - 18 Aug 2004 21:26 GMT
Did you perhaps make the boot partition larger than 8GB in some way?
If the update put any critical files beyond the first 8GB of the disk, they
may not be accessible during boot, since the driver needed for this has not
loaded yet.

If this is the case, you may have to reinstall your backup.  If you do not
have a backup (why not?), you may be able to image the drive with something
like Ghost and then restore it back to a smaller partition.  If it won't fit
into a smaller partition, you may get lucky and the imaging may still end up
putting the critical files back where they can be accessed.  I have actually
seen this work.

Or, the problem may be a driver problem - especially if you have SCSI drives,
or some other non-standard drive controller.  I don't really have any
suggestion for this.

|Hello,
|I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 with Windows NT 4.0 Server, Service pack 3.
|I have upgraded it to Service pack 6a, but after restarting, the system
|crash with an "Inaccesible_Boot_Device" error on blue screen.
|
|What can I do?
|
|Thanks
Jetro - 19 Aug 2004 00:12 GMT
It's possible to overcome 7.8 GB system/boot partition limit by replacing
NT4 loader files with its W2k and up versions.
Calvin - 19 Aug 2004 11:17 GMT
Hey Jetro,

an interesting point - have you actually done this yourself, and does it work OK ??

Calvin.
Jetro - 19 Aug 2004 16:45 GMT
It works without a glitch indeed. All you need is the bootstrap loader,
ntldr, and ntdetect.com, rarely ntbootdd.sys.
 
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