Originally Posted by
Cgaul
We recently got a Benchman mill with an Acramatic 2100 controller that currently won't boot. It powers up, but Windows NT won't load - it can't find the WINNT directory ("Disk I/O Error: 00001000", etc).
I've opened it up and pulled out the harddisk; after installing it in a PC and looking at it with PartitionMagic, I see it has two partitions, a FAT partition with the WinNT loader and a loader for the Mustang software, and a NTFS partition that actually has the OS and software. As near as I can tell, this is why it isn't booting (it's trying to boot from the FAT partition that doesn't actually contain NT) - but why is that partition even there? Can I safely remove it with PartitionMagic, or does the controller software require it for some reason?
Thanks for any clarification anyone can offer.