[F8] Boot First Hard Disk Question
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:13 am
I have a scsi hard drive that won't boot to Windows. The drive is recognized and I imaged it with a known good image using PQ Drive Image. However, when I try to boot I get "Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware ...."
The boot.ini file shows multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000" /fastdetect
I don't know why it's set to partition 2. If I change it to partition 1 I get "F1 to retry , F2 for system setup"
However, if I boot to UBCD 3.4 and choose "[F8] Boot to first hard disk", it boots right up. The scsi bios/pc bios has not been changed and I'm using the image from the drive that currently is working in the system.
Can someone tell me what "[F8] Boot to first hard disk" is doing so I can change my OS to behave the same?
Thanks in advance!
Charles
The boot.ini file shows multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000" /fastdetect
I don't know why it's set to partition 2. If I change it to partition 1 I get "F1 to retry , F2 for system setup"
However, if I boot to UBCD 3.4 and choose "[F8] Boot to first hard disk", it boots right up. The scsi bios/pc bios has not been changed and I'm using the image from the drive that currently is working in the system.
Can someone tell me what "[F8] Boot to first hard disk" is doing so I can change my OS to behave the same?
Thanks in advance!
Charles