hard drive not recognized

[jitter]

We have a Windows 2000 server. It has 4 scsi drives. Two are 8 gigs and 2 are 16 gigs. There is no mirroring or any other sort of fault tollerance. They are all getting backup to a file on a seperate machine.

Today I came in and there was a message that NTLDR was missing. After restarting it it was only finding three of the four drives and again would come up with NTLDR was missing.

I entered recovery console and was able to navigate all four drives without any problems. And of course the NTLDR was there. So I tried the restarting through recovery console again. It still failed with same message.

I then did a hard shutdown and waited and then started it up again using the power button. Doing this it recognized all four drives and booted up normally. While in windows I did a restart and it failed again with same message. Once again I did a hard shutdown and restarted and it worked.

So if you restart the machine it will not recognize one of the drives (I assume the C: drive) and error with NTLDR missing. If you shut down the machine and then start it up it works fine and sees all four drives.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Jitter

 

[garebo]

I am only guessing here so please bear with me.
There used to be some probs associated with timing that could be fixed in the bios. Something like the os wouldnt wait long enough for the hard drives to come onboard.
With a full boot there is enough time, with a restart there isnt?
Again, just guessing here.


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