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Boot.ini entry for 3War Raid50

I've got a 3Ware RAID50 controller, running 2 partitions. I first installed Win2003 x64 onto the partition which became C:. I then installed Win2003 Standard onto the second partition which became D:. Everything was fine, until I installed the 64 bit driver for the onboard SuperMicro RAID 1 raid controller. After rebooting, the 64-bit Win2003 install would no longer boot, giving me the following error:

windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: "<Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe"

I've already booted with the Win2003 x64 install cd and went to the recovery console. I ran map, and it said that the partitions I wanted were on \device\harddisk4\PartitionX, where X={1,2}. I'm playing around with the 64 bit OS entry in boot.ini to see if I can get it booting again.

I can still boot into the 32-bit OS, which resides on D:. A copy of c:\boot.ini is below:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /fastdetect /PAE
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition" /noexecute /fastdetect

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