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two drive boot failure

Started by philsaun Jan 27, 2007 at 5:20 PM 2 replies 3.3k views

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Jan 27, 2007 at 5:20 PM

I need help please! - I am a brand new member - January 27, 2007 I have recently created a good bootable clone of my 200GB Maxtor boot drive using TransXP on a Hitachi 250GB drive and then created a second data partition on the Hitachi with the left over 44GB of space. No problems and the Hitachi boots up just fine if it is alone on the bus. What do I want to accomplish? I simply want to be able to have both drives on the primary IDE bus and be able to boot up normally on the Maxtor as I always have with the Hitachi recognized as a simple data drive. If my primary Maxtor ever dies I will simply disconnect it and then boot up on the Hitachi and go from there. Below are all the details of my configuration and the problems I have been having. leiavoia of this forum says: “Also note that the master boot record only works on the master drive. If you have two bootable drives it will only attempt to boot off the master at startup.” What am I doing wrong? Single boot problem with two bootable drives on the primary IDE bus: My Setup:two IDE ATA/133 drives Master drive: Maxtor 200GB,1 partition jumpered as Cable Select(CS)on black (primary)end of IDE ribbon - my C: drive with XP Pro Second drive:jumpered as CS - Hitachi 250GB, 2 partitions on secondary(gray) IDE connector - partition(1)is bootable 200GB clone of Maxtor - partition(2)is 44GB data space Both drives are recognized as above in the BIOS and the boot sequence is: 1.A:Floppy, 2.Maxtor Primary Master, 3.BenqCD. When booting up with both drives on primary IDE bus: XP starts to load - then: “autochk program not found -- skipping AUTOCHK” - double blue tone screen long - long wait - black screen - then dreaded blue screen of death with this error: STOP: c000021a {fatal system error} The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000012f (0x00000000 0x00000000) The system has been shut down. What gives here? Thanks so much for any advice. Phil

Endar

Jan 27, 2007 at 10:32 PM

What would probably be better is to install a boot loader that will let you select from the two partitions at boot up time.

I have linux installed on my secondary partition, and I have grub as the boot loader. Grub is set up to display a menu asking which to load, and then after 3 seconds, just load the default, which is WinXP.

That's probably the better way to go. I mean, 3 seconds every time you start your computer isn't much at all.

I can't really help on the problem but you should use the WinXP cd to start in recovery mode (I think), so you can run chkdsk from a command line.

philsaun

Jan 28, 2007 at 9:08 AM

I have also tried the dual-boot method with a modified boot.ini as follows with no success:

Dual boot problems with modified boot.ini 01-28-07

Situation:
Master drive - Maxtor 200GB, 1 partition, jumpered Cable Select (CS) - black connector
second drive - Hitachi 250GB, 2 partitions, jumpered CS with gray connector
partition(1) is bootable clone of Maxtor, partition(2) is 43GB data space

Both drives are recognized as above in the BIOS and the boot sequence is:
1. A: Floppy, 2.C: Maxtor Master, 3. D: BenqCD.

What I see on boot-up:

We get to the OS selection screen and it defaults to the Maxtor in three seconds. Then a blue screen (not the dreaded Microsoft blue error screen of death) with the text: "Autochk missing --- Skipping AUTOCHECK" - then a black screen and long wait - then a death screen and fatal system error and shutdown. If I boot from the Hitachi I get the same stuff but a different fatal system error.
Autochk.exe is not missing, it is right here:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\autochk.exe - 576KB - application.

The BOOT.INI for Maxtor master drive for dual boot system is:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Maxtor master XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Hitachi slave XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

The BOOT.INI for Hitachi slave drive for dual boot system is:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Hitachi slave XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

Error when booting on default Maxtor drive:

XP starts to load - then: "autochk program not found -- skipping AUTOCHK" - double tone blue screen

STOP: c000021a {fatal system error} The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000, 0x00000000) The system has been shut down.

Error when selecting Hitachi slave drive:

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xf78A2528, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) much text (virus, new hard drives, configured correctly, etc) shut down to prevent damage

What is wrong with this dual boot protocol? Thanks, Phil

alunharford

Jan 28, 2007 at 12:59 PM

Are you *sure* the drives are clones? (If it weren't for the fact that you can boot if you remove a drive, I'd say that you probably had a corrupt file)

Maybe you should try booting linux and comparing the drives?

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