New Promise driver=no boot???

Jester · Post by **Jester** » Wed Jun 12, 2002 11:29 pm

I was on Windows update getting a few patches and noticed there was a new driver for my onboard Promise raid controller. I run my hard drive off this controller so I went ahead and downloaded it. Restarted the computer and I now get an inacessible_boot_device, the exact same message you get when you upgrade motherboards with Win2k. I really don't want to reinstall Windows right now so is there anyway I can reinstall the old driver? I already tried "last known good configuration" and safe mode but both give me that same error message.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 6:12 am

i had the same thing happen to me under win2k- my drives are on a promise ata66 card and after the winblowz update it would only see one partition on each drive - and not the boot partition - i think i did the rollback and it worked for me - i guess you'll have to d/l the drivers from promise and then load them during the boot sequence where it asks for scsi drivers since wiblowz treats the promise card as a scsi device

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 9:26 am

I have a Dragon Plus with an onboard Promise ATA100/RAID controller. I tried to add the contoller after WinXP was installed and it would dump a bad BSOD on bootup. I had to format and install fresh to use the controller.

Jester · Post by **Jester** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 10:10 am

Originally posted by wvjohn
i had the same thing happen to me under win2k- my drives are on a promise ata66 card and after the winblowz update it would only see one partition on each drive - and not the boot partition - i think i did the rollback and it worked for me - i guess you'll have to d/l the drivers from promise and then load them during the boot sequence where it asks for scsi drivers since wiblowz treats the promise card as a scsi device

How would I go about doing a rollback?

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 2:50 pm

rollback = last known good configuration

i'd just dl the drivers and try that first

Jester · Post by **Jester** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 6:05 pm

Well I got it working again.

I didn't realize that when I select "Last Known Good Configuration" I have to press L to actually load it...not just select the shown profile.

So as a note to anyone with a Promise controller and Win2k (probably XP also)...don't install it if it's your boot drive!

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 6:47 pm

gotta love the way microsoft helps us out