williamc

I use a bootable Norton Ghost 2003 CD to perform the restoration of a ghosted Win2000 OS image. Problem is, the image is from another system. And though it restores fine to the target system, the Win2000 startup fails with Stop Error 7B (Inaccessible_Boot_Device). Apparently the OS contains different disk device information from the source system. Source: Intel 82801 BA bus master IDE controller Target: Intel 82371 AB/ED PCI bus master IDE controller Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Any way around this?

I see the error of my previous approach. The NTLDR doesn't provide an operating system - it's just a way to get a menu up to present choice of loading an operating system. (For liquidplasmaflow) I was able to achieve that using a boot image of a bootable Win2000 diskette in 'floppy disk emulation' mode, to which I had previously copied boot.ini, NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM. The instructions for that were the ones you'd follow if you needed a floppy to bypass a corrupt boot.ini or NTLDR on your hard disk. I'm now pursuing an approach which is to make separate bootable ISO images for each of the boot options I want to present. This assures unit testing of each. Then, I will combine them all using MagicISO multiboot, which presents its own menu. I like MagicISO's ease-of-use, but the boot menu is plain text. I've also noted that at the last stage of combining the separate images into one multi-boot image I have the alternative of using other software that can present a graphical menu (eg- EasyBoot). I think for me (as a newbie in bootable CDs) the two conceptual hurdles have been: - a boot option screen is a separate thing from a bootable OS - a boot image file is a separate thing from a recordable ISO image file Now that I better appreciate these points my choice of tools is more clear: - WinImage, to edit boot image files - MagicISO, to edit recordable ISO image files - EasyBoot, to create graphical multi-boot option screens Still trying to figure out how to create a bootable recovery console, but I can always use a multi-boot menu to remind the user of Win2000 setup to hit F10 and go straight into the recovery console. Anyway, making some progress. Thanks for the guidance.

I'm using MagicISO, and interested in creating a CD-ROM disc that offers the following options on bootup: - Windows 2000/SP4 Installer (default) - Windows 2000/SP4 Unattended Installation - Windows Recovery Console - Norton Ghost 2003 Utility Is this possible using NTLDR and a boot.ini such as the following: [boot loader] timeout=30 multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Existing Windows Troubleshooter [VGA safe mode w/networking]" /safeboot:network /basevideo /sos /noguiboot [operating systems] c:\i386\winnt32="Windows 2000/SP4 Installer" /s:c:\i386 c:\i386\winnt32="Windows 2000/SP4 Unattended Install (default SIF)" /s:c:\i386 /u:winnt.sif /debug3:c:\setup.log c:\cmdcons\bootsect.dat="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons c:\utils\nghost\ghost\ghost.exe="Norton Ghost 2003 Utility" I've tried, and can get a bootable CD with options displayed, but can't get past errors like inability to find the NTOSKRNL.EXE and the like. Is this approach doable or not? Would love some guidance from the pros.