[cisco-voip] Rebuild UNITY Bootsector

[David Zhars]

LOL!  Thanks for the laugh after a pretty nasty day.

Once the man at TAC found someone in licensing, she literally asked me about
3 questions and then said "check your email", and there was my license.
Other times, yeah, not so good.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Go0se <me at go0se.com> wrote:

> I'm picturing Betty White answering the phones. I finally got a call 5+
> hours after I opened my ticket.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Go0se
>
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> http://atc.go0se.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Heim [mailto:Dennis.Heim at cdw.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 4:49 PM
> To: Go0se; 'David Zhars'; 'Norton, Mike'
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Rebuild UNITY Bootsector
>
> Its licensing.... the beginning of the next Snickers bar commercial...
>
> Dennis Heim
> Network Voice Engineer
> CDW  Advanced Technology Services
> 11711 N. Meridian Street, Suite 225
> Carmel, IN  46032
>
> 317.569.4255 Office/Home Office
> 317.569.4201 Fax
> 317.694.6070 Cell
> dennis.heim at cdw.com
> cdw.com/content/solutions/unified-communications/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Go0se
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 5:37 PM
> To: 'David Zhars'; 'Norton, Mike'
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Rebuild UNITY Bootsector
>
> I really wonder if something's up with licensing... I opened a TAC case
> with
> licensing almost 4 hours ago - still shows a status of "Not Yet Assigned".
> So much for their "someone will call you back within an hour" promise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Go0se
>
> My blog:
> http://atc.go0se.com
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David Zhars
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 3:24 PM
> To: Norton, Mike
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Rebuild UNITY Bootsector
>
> Def bad hard drive...ca ca!  Now onto the nasty and troublesome ordeal of
> "recover my data from my hard drive that is making clicking noises".....
>
> And we were due to upg Unity in 2 weeks...now it's going to be so ugly....
>
> Kind of funny though, on the phone with TAC, and he can't transfer me
> because everytime he calls someone in the licensing group, all he's getting
> is dead air.  Probably another dead phone system.
>
> On 12/6/10, Norton, Mike <mikenorton at pwsd76.ab.ca> wrote:
> > You almost certainly need to "F6" and give Windows Setup a floppy with
> > the SATA controller driver. Without a driver for the disk controller,
> > it's not going to see any disks. It's unlikely that Windows 2000 has a
> > built-in driver for your SATA controller (did SATA even exist that
> > long
> ago?).
> >
> > --
> > Mike Norton
> > I.T. Support
> > Peace Wapiti School Division No. 76
> > Helpdesk: 780-831-3080
> > Direct: 780-831-3076
> >
> > From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David Zhars
> > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 9:56 AM
> > To: ROZA, Ariel
> > Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Rebuild UNITY Bootsector
> >
> > unfortunately with win2k disk and option to repar, i get
> > (paraphrasing) "no hard drives were found in this system".  the disk
> > is found in BIOS and at bootup.
> > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:37 AM, ROZA, Ariel
> > <Ariel.ROZA at la.logicalis.com<mailto:Ariel.ROZA at la.logicalis.com>> wrote:
> > The bootsector can be repaired using  the operating system disk
> > (w2k/w3k disk from Microsoft), running the setup program and choosing
> > the option to do a Repair (instead of a new installation). In the
> > Rapir menu there is an option to repair the boot environment.
> >
> > Ariel.
> >
> > From:
> > cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.neth
> > er.net>
> > [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at p
> > uck.nether.net>]
> > On Behalf Of John Huston
> > Sent: lunes, 06 de diciembre de 2010 12:50 p.m.
> > To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> >
> > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Rebuild UNITY Bootsector
> >
> > Have you thought about a utility that will check the MBR?
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Erick B. <erickbee at gmail.com<mailto:erickbee at gmail.com>>
> > To: David Zhars <dzhars at gmail.com<mailto:dzhars at gmail.com>>
> > Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> > Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 10:39:28 AM
> > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Rebuild UNITY Bootsector
> >
> > In past, I've gotten 2 systems back up with the win2k (once with the
> > WinXP CD) recovery console and the chkdsk option... like the BSOD
> > message saids to try to do.
> >
> > However, there were 2-3 systems I could not get the chkdsk, and other
> > stuff to fix it and a rebuild was needed then restore from backup
> > (hopefully you have one).
> >
> > Erick
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:11 AM, David Zhars
> > <dzhars at gmail.com<mailto:dzhars at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> My Unity is down!  4.1.x (I know!  We're upgrading in about 2 weeks,
> >> doesn't help me now).
> >>
> >> Unity won't boot.  Initially it would not see the HD (single SATA HD
> >> on this unit). Now it sees the HD, but says it can't find an OS.
> >> This sounds suspiciously like a bad BOOT.INI file....(Windows 2000 is
> >> Unity 4.x for those of us unfortunate enough to still be on it).
> >>
> >> Anyone ever had to do this?  Can I take a generic Win2K disc, boot
> >> up, and use FIXBOOT?
> >>
> >> Thanks for helping!
> >>
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