Bailey: Verifying DMI Pool Data... BOOT: I/O error reading disk Please insert another disk I had win98 and NT4-server. Anyone could help, please share your knowledge. Thank You. _____________________________________________________ Gary: You havn't got a floppy disk or cd in the drives have you! Check your BIOS to see what boot order your drives are in, Should be A: C: SCSI, or something similar. Could be a Hard disk boot sector fault. ______________________________________________________ Bailey: My boot order is correct "A, C, Scsi" So, I suspect it may be HD boot sector fault. I did "Fdisk /MBR" to repair it but with out improvement. And I lost my Emergency Boot Disk. What Am I to do now? Please share your knowledge, Thanks. _______________________________________________________ J Reuter: What did you do before this happened. It would be great to know if this happened just so, or if you did something in your system. I had a similar problem when inverting Primary and secondary controller. While every boot system must be installed on a disk on the primary controller (if there is just one disk). It could be that your parttion is not active. Run fdisk and see mail me for further help _______________________________________________________ anon...: As J Reuter asks: what did you do to get into this state... What is you system config? (HD EIDE/SCSI; partitions - as was...? etc.) Ideas: set your sequence to c: then a: ? Can you boot from '98 boot-disk (or a DOS 6.22 variety)? What does Fdisk reveal? What happens if you run the NT install floppies??? Will it allow a repair/upgrade choice etc??? ________________________________________________________

Before this error appear, I took the HD out and placed it into a HP desktop <>. Well, after a while, I placed the HD back to the original server <>. Then the ERROR occured. Well, I did try booting it in sequence : "C..then..A" But no improvement. The HD is EIDE and only 2Gb as primary and active partition <> about the "NT Install disk", Im still working on it. If anyone has any ideas, please share. Thanks you all.

Before this error appear, I took the HD out and placed it into a HP desktop - AS A SECONDARY MASTER. Well, after a while, I placed the HD back to the original server - AS PRIMARY MASTER. Then the ERROR occured. Well, I did try booting it in sequence : "C..then..A" But no improvement. The HD is EIDE and only 2Gb as primary and active partition <> about the "NT Install disk", Im still working on it. If anyone has any ideas, please share. Thanks you all.

You say this HD was installed into another PC (an HP) as a Secondary Master (with or without a Slave???) and then Primary Master (with or without Slave???) - did you alter this HD's jumper settings at any time (i.e. to or from single Primary Master/slave etc...)? If so... have you set the jumper back to how they were originally - being a master only or whatever it was??? Might be worth checking this little item... Also have you managed to acquire a DOS (ideally 6.22 with CDROM support) boot disk and do an FDisk??? How exactly was this HD configured before it 'all' went ' wrong'? Also did yo make any changes to its configuration/installations whilst in the HP??? The more you can tell us the greater the chances 'we' all can help... Also visit: http://www.sysinternals.com and check out the NT and '98 utilities there. They may allow you some way to at least access this HD in some way, and then recover critical data at leaset??? Hang in...

Are you sure you're connecting the HD in properly; that the cable is properly installed at both ends ('plugs' aren't reversed, which is possible with some ribbon connectors); that you are connecting to both rows of pins at both ends...?

Is your hard drive a western digital, if so pull the jumper off if it a stand alone. Change the order of the bootable to the cdrom and load nt from the cd-rom.