Disk Read Error on boot mystery.

Question

This one is making me crazy. This morning my system was running -- PE 4200/300 with Win2K. I thought it was a little slow, so I selected windows shutdown. On reboot, the hardware initializes then right after SCSI BIOS Installed Successfully! I get "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" I can load Win2k repair console and view the disk just fine, but the system won't boot. There is no new software installed since it was running this morning. I am baffled. Dell Utilities on the RAID disk itself all pass! Can anyone help with this mystery?

Thanks!

toma12 · Answer

Thank for the reply. Unfortunately, that isn't my situation. The boot partition is 10gb. I have been trying to determine the identity of the ntbootdd.sys file to build a bootble floppy. The file is 9488 bytes big. You would happen to know which file this is, would you?

DELL-Mark A · Answer

Hi,

There is a problem with the PowerEdge Expandable Raid Controller (PERC) II which was installed in many of the PowerEdge 4200's.

The Perc II does not support a boot array of more than 12Gb. The "Disk Read" error is an indication of this problem.

howard hughes · Answer

Hello, I am having the same issue with this perc II controller.  I will recreate the boot partition to 10gb as well.  So far I have been installing the OS to 18gb partition.   thx HHH

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