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Inaccessible_Boot_Device

Asked by: Hoeglund

Hi Guy´s, Newbie from Denmark joining in as I have found many good answers to earlier problems, but now I really need help...

I´m getting pretty close to desperat soon, my problem is as follows:

I have an older NT 4 SP6 system, which I need to migrate from Compaq Proliant 1600, to new Hardware HP DL 380 G4, with SmartArray6i RAID controller.

I used Ghost 9, to migrate the software, and all went well in the Ghost(I have boot partition >8GB). BUT, when I try to boot, I get the error inaccessible_boot_device, followed by the error code 0x0000007b, and the listing of the involved drivers, whereamong the cpqarray.sys is listed. I do realize that I need to update the drivers for the SmartArray controller, but how can I do that, when my server bluescreens, and even when I use the winternal ERD disk, I cannot execute driver update from that console. I have tried to do fresh install NT over NT, but when I get to the CDROM file system the install crashes and reboot. I have tried to add drivers using <F6> and i can succesfully add the drivers for the SmartArray6i controller during the install, but when I try to add the new Atapi.sys (From SP4, since I cannot find newer as boot time loadable), it just freeze and never load the atapi driver.

There is 2 possible solutions to getting this up and running, but both are crashing on me. Please help me as soon as possible.

Best regards from Denmark...


More info added...  I tried to resize partition to 4096mb, nothing changed. Here is all data from BSOD:

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF1C13BE0, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

SYSVER 0xf0000565

ntoskrnl.exe            hal.dll
cpqSMgrK.sys            cpqarray.sys
SCSIPORT.sys            atapi.sys
cpq32fs2.sys            DISK.sys
CLASS2.sys            cpqsdm.sys
Ntfs.sys

Please help, I need this server running this weekend.



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2005-12-14 at 00:44:13ID21664008
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by: ocon827679Posted on 2005-12-14 at 16:55:56ID: 15487340

Don't know how much luck you're going to have.  NT is very picky about hardware, have you looked on the MS site for the Hardware Comaptibility List to see if this new server is supported by NT?  Does the new system come with a smart start CD (or something similar)? If so, boot from it and see if the NT OS is supported with this hardware.

More than likely you are going to have to reload NT from scratch (assuming that the server will support NT).  Ghost works great for similar hardware, but not dissimilar hardware.  You're better off reloading the OS and apps and restoring your data from backups.  Ugly, but you are talking about NT and it is not a forgiving OS.

 

by: HoeglundPosted on 2005-12-14 at 23:39:28ID: 15488681

Hi and thanks

So far I´m out of luck....  Yes I do know that NT is unforgiving, but I have earlier had luck in doing ghost´s to newer hardware, and just updating the drivers "along with the ride"... but the installed RAIDcontroller driver does´nt work for the 6i controller, I have found a NT driver for the 6i controller, but I need to know how to get it installed, preferrably without having to reinstall Nt, since the server is running a Industrial WMS system, that in fact is even harder to setup and configure than all this NT driver trouble.

My next move is to download the smartstart cd 7.10 (the supplied is 7.3) the 7.10 have drivers for the 6i controller, and then I´ll try to install NT over NT, booting the SmartStart cd and preloading the drivers needed.

Anybody out there with similar experiences, please respond with any assistance you can. I would highly appreciate this.

best regards

Hans Hoeglund

 

by: DoinAdminPosted on 2006-01-19 at 14:12:58ID: 15743612

 I have the same problem with a ProLiant ML350 G2 moving to a DL380 G4.  I did the SmartStart 7.4 to make sure the Service partition was in place on the new dl380.  I imaged over the first Windows 2000 server install with my ML350 partitions, then rebooted.  the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_ERROR ocurrs at this point, so I do the inplace upgrade or install NT over NT, windows loads for me, however old registry settings annoy me with 'New Installation' windows asking me for a software disk I never installed and don't have (an old registry setting somewhere is doing this, it does the same for Windows Office CD as well... I have to cancel since I don't know what it is).  Often when I right click on a file, the 'New Installation' windows begin popping up again.  I tried replacing the registry from the ML350 onto the DL380 but the INACCESSIBLE error stops windows.  Even if I could get past these inital errors, the primary application loaded on the second partition fails to run citing DLL problems.  I also manually installed the drivers for the disk and verified the boot.ini file was pointing to the right partition.  I have done this before on the exact same server but with a G2 to a G3 and was successful after several attempts.

Tim

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