Cincinatti Arrow 1000 Blue Screen

[david_culler]

We've had our Cinci Arrow 1000 with Acromatic 2100 controller down for about a year now. We copied the data from the failing hard disk to another hard disk but haven't had any luck getting the machine to boot up again. Anyone have any suggestions on where to start. Thanks

[mike9a]

Hi David,
How did you copy data from the failing HD?
At what point you are getting blue screen?
What OS you have it NT3.5 Nt4.0 ...?
Do you still have an old/original/failing HD? Is it spinning? What size, Model?
Send me an email with phone# at
mikedeja
@
9aic
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com

Mike

[cnc doc]

i have had trouble with ghosting these drives on newer operating systems. For some reason even on xp if you used norton ghost the files do not copy right. if this control still has nt which i beleive it will you need to find an old computer to ghost the hard drive with. also be prepared to argue with a lot of it guys. problem is if you take the hard drive you currently have that has been reimaged and install it in a cpu you will boot up and have a control on your screen. however when pluged into the workstation board it will not. also a good rule of thumb with these controls is if you are having boot up issues take the powersupply workstation board and hard drive and plug them into regular cpu monitor if it boots up then you must put back in machine and plug one board in at a time until you find the one causing the problem. note that does not mean it is that board perhaps something plugged into it. i have seen a lot of problems caused that were solved by unplugging the operator keyboard including fixing machines that would not boot up at all.

[advt001]

A year or so back we booted up 1 morning and got that dreaded blus screen on 1 of my Arrow 1000's. We really lucked out with the guy selling hard drives on ebay, the correct instrutions come with the drive and if that dont work for you he can be reached by phone. Dont fret find his auction.

[scudzuki]

Booting up an XP machine with an A2100 HDD connected will result in the file system on the drive being upgraded to NTFS 5.1. The drive is then rendered unbootable since NT 3.51 supports NTFS 4 and earlier only.

To safely ghost an A2100 drive, boot from a Ghost boot CD which boots to PC-DOS and will nor alter the file system on the source drive, or with an NT 3.51 or 4.0 system running Ghost for Windows.

If you PM me I can provide a disk image to create a bootable Ghost CD.

Joe