Subj : WINNT ERROR
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Fri Apr 13 2001 02:54 am

Hi Lawrence,

 RT>> I am trying to install WINNT 4.0 on a PIII 450, 64 Meg RAM, 15 Gig
 RT>> Fujitsu HDD. 

 RT>> When the NT kernal boots for the first time I get the following
 RT>> error. 

 RT>> *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF9013BD4,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000
 RT>> INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE


 RT>> Installs fine on my PI 75, with a 6 Gig Segate HDD and 32 Meg. RAM,
 RT>> both are currently running WIN98SE.

 RT>> Any idea how I can fix this?

 LG> Classic error, Russell.... most likely caused by your >8GB drive.

 LG> Two options, if #1 doesn't work, you'll have to use #2.

 LG> #1. Pre-partition a 2GB FAT16 partition on your 15GB drive, then run 
 LG> the NT installation again. This should get you around the glitch with 
 LG> the large drive.

 LG> #2. If #1 doesn't work.. then there's a KB document on the Microsoft 
 LG> site that describes using the ATAPI.SYS driver from SP4 to build a 
 LG> patched set of boot floppies that will be able to communicate with 
 LG> your >8GB drive.

 LG> btw... while you're building that 2GB partition, go ahead and copy 
 LG> the \i386 folder from the CDROM to your hard drive and run the 
 LG> installation from the hard drive... you'll be glad you did. :-)

Thanks, what I did was basically option #1, had a existing 2 Gig FAT16 partion 
on the drive. Previously also had Linux on it's own partion on the drive. I 
suspect that the problem was caused by Linux putting something in the partion 
table which NT did not like.

NT reported that partion as either damaged or unformatted. My solution was to 
get my WIN98SE boot disk out, boot from it and fire up FDISK, delete all the 
partions on the HDD, created a 2 Gig partion (FAT32) :-). Rebooted and changed 
BIOS default to boot from the CD-ROM.

NT loaded fine, could not use the FAT32 partion, using the FDISK utility of NT 
setup to delete the partion and created a 2 Gig. NTFS partion, and installed NT 
4.0 Server as that was what I had in the CD-ROM.

So I got NT loaded on the system, but with the loss of the whole system, which 
I would rather not have had happen.

Problem was it appears to have been a corrupt partion table, unfortunately I 
don't know how or if it is possible to fix partion tables, above and beyond 
what the abilities of Norton Utilities.

Now I am building my FidoNet system from the ground up.

Many thanks,

Russell

PS. System is now at FixPack 6, if I can install and play Age of Empires on it, 
I might just leave it as a WINNT only system.

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 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1)

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