trying to create a WinNT rescue disk

[Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01]

Jim Morash <jmorash at mit.edu> wrote:
> I have probably a rather unusual problem. I have a computer with WinNT
> already installed on it, plus RedHat7.2, and would like to try and
> create a repair disk for the WinNT install (I'm no longer able to boot
> NT, though I have no problem starting the NT bootloader - after I
> choose Windows NT 4.0 and it starts to boot, I get a BSOD with
> reference to being unable to access the bootloader (which was just
> running...!?). So, I thought I might try and run rdisk.exe and create
> a repair disk, using Wine. The only problem is, I can't get rdisk.exe
> to access the floppy drive. Any suggestions?
Yep. Get someone to mail a disk image and dd it to your floppy.

> and this spew of stuff in the controlling xterm:

> fixme:ntdll:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U
> (L"A:\\",0x406160ac,00000000,00000000)
> fixme:ntdll:NtOpenFile
> (0x406160f0,0x00100003,0x406151cc,0x406151e4,0x00000003,0x00000010)
> stub
> fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationFile
> (0x00000000,0x406151e4,0x406151ec,0x00000004,0x00000011),stub!
> fixme:ntdll:NtFsControlFile
> (0x00000000,0x00000000,(nil),(nil),0x406151e4,0x00090083,(nil),0x00000000,(nil),0x00000000):
> stub
> fixme:ntdll:NtDeviceIoControlFile
> (0x00000000,0x00000000,(nil),(nil),0x4061607c,0x00070000,(nil),0x00000000,0x4061604c,0x00000018):
> empty stub
> fixme:ntdll:NtDeviceIoControlFile
> (0x00000000,0x00000000,(nil),(nil),0x4061607c,0x00070c00,(nil),0x00000000,0x40615e4c,0x000001e0):
> empty stub

Ugh. Not good.
Implement it if you want to stand *any* chance of getting it to work.

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