Kramy Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 I replaced my Win2k's NTDETECT.COM and ntldr with XP Sp2 versions, and then used another harddrive(IDE - later removed) to pre-format the SATA drive into 64kb cluster size partitions.It now boots from 64kb clusters using a Silicon Image SATA 3112 Raid Controller. Nothing to do with RAID, but the problem is obviously RAID related and not totally cluster size related, or it also involves some other files aswell since those two work fine on my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banshee28 Posted December 22, 2005 Author Share Posted December 22, 2005 I replaced my Win2k's NTDETECT.COM and ntldr with XP Sp2 versions, and then used another harddrive(IDE - later removed) to pre-format the SATA drive into 64kb cluster size partitions.It now boots from 64kb clusters using a Silicon Image SATA 3112 Raid Controller. Nothing to do with RAID, but the problem is obviously RAID related and not totally cluster size related, or it also involves some other files aswell since those two work fine on my system.I have not tried to replace those specific files from Win2k, but I did try to use non-SP1 of Win2k3 to do this install thinking that SP1 was the culprit.....NO GO.......Same error on first boot.I put it back to 4KB clusters and let Win2k3 build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big poppa pump Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 (edited) I was the one who had posted the solution at ABIT forums. http://forum.abit-usa.com/showpost.php?p=6...8&postcount=508This might help you. If you have a dos hex editor or a dual boot system you might be able to edit the mbr on the raid partition.....Just to let ya'll know - NTDETECT.COM and NTLDR has nothing to do at all over here. Edited January 9, 2006 by big poppa pump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aluminum Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 (edited) D*** I wish I had seen this thread before I tried to reuse my windows 2k disk system, now I have to reinstall 2k, then find somewhere to stuff hundreds of GBs of crap to start over with XP The weird thing is, even though my OS partition was only ~50gb and I wiped that, apparently just because my 64k stripe data partition is on the same array, the MBR data is still a problem What id*** decided to cap at 4k clusters with SP2...they suck for large files Edited August 5, 2006 by Aluminum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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