Inaccessible_Boot_Device

prospect

Hi All,

I have a W2K Pro PC here that gives this message on a blue screen when started up.
I have tried to boot in safe mode, but get the same message, just after the W2K logo screen.
I also tried to format the HDD and re-install the OS, but the format procedure crashes after 80% and says the disk may be damaged. So, I swapped the HDD for another one (which is working fine) and it now gives the same message when i boot up??

Any ideas?

kmb

Hi,Swop the ide cable with the cdrom one and see how it goes.


regards kieran

Hank_Scorpio

Don't think it's anything to do with your hard drive disks. Quite possibly to with the BIOS, which is nothing to do with the hard disks. If you look for the key to enter the BIOS (usually F2) then change the Boot disk there manually to the disk that has the Operating System on it.

Failing that you might try using a Windows disk to boot up, this will allow you to overwrite the old OS and install a new one from there.

I like the IDE Cable Idea. Maybe unplug everything except the cable from hard disk to the motherboard.

Keyzer

prospect wrote:

Hi All,

I have a W2K Pro PC here that gives this message on a blue screen when started up.
I have tried to boot in safe mode, but get the same message, just after the W2K logo screen.
I also tried to format the HDD and re-install the OS, but the format procedure crashes after 80% and says the disk may be damaged. So, I swapped the HDD for another one (which is working fine) and it now gives the same message when i boot up??

Any ideas?

What is the full and exact error message?
If you google the exact error you will 9/10 times find a solution.

prospect

kool,

Will try all of the above and revert.

prospect

Hi all,

The error message is Stop 0x0000007B
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

I have tried:
1. Swapping the ribbon cable and power cables
2. Last Known Good Configuration Option
3. Making the HDD the primary boot device
4. Re-Installing windows, (this works happily and crashes out half way through formatting the disk)
5. Disconnecting the CD drive, DVD drive and floppy drive
6. Using different RAM
7. Checked Jumper settings
8. Tried another W2K HDD

But I get the the same blue screen and error message every time.
I see the white progress bar, then it switches to the W2K logo screen, and freezes for about 20-30secs on that and then goes to the blue screen.

Any more thoughts?
Cheers.

smeggle

have you tried flashing the bios? btw how old is the machine? could be your bios battery has gone flat - it happens and will give all sorts of unrelated error, inaccessible boot device being one of them. If the machine is 3 or more years old it would be one of the first things I'd suspect.

To enter bios settings on most machines it's 'Delete' on start up. You can configure boot settings etc from there.

kmb

What motherboard do you have?May help to solve problem...

regards kieran

Fionn

hi
i'm just only now after recovering from a stop code 0x0000007b inaccessible_boot_device on a win 2000 machine here.
exact same symptoms as you describe.

My solution was to make four startup disks (bios wouldn't allow booting from CDROM) Boot up from the floppy and then i chose the recover and repair option press R and then L (i think ) when prompted from the startup screen.

obviously if your bios supports CDROM Booting just use the recovery console from the Product CD.

hope this helps

Gurgle

prospect wrote:

Hi All,

I have a W2K Pro PC here that gives this message on a blue screen when started up.
I have tried to boot in safe mode, but get the same message, just after the W2K logo screen.
I also tried to format the HDD and re-install the OS, but the format procedure crashes after 80% and says the disk may be damaged. So, I swapped the HDD for another one (which is working fine) and it now gives the same message when i boot up??

Any ideas?

Win2K SP3 or later can't boot from a slave drive.

I installed with an SP2 CD, worked fine for several months, installed SP3 & got stop error 0007.

Check your hdd jumper is set to master - dont use CS.

prospect

I checked the HDD jumpers are set to Master.
I swapped out the battery

But nothing.

So i booted from the floppy disks, and it ran through each of them. But during the 'Windows 2000 Start-Up' part of Disk 4 it returned to a new BSOD:

Stop 0x0000001E
Kmode_Exception_Not_Handled
*** Address BFFBBBBE base at BFFA2000, DateStamp 38441c2a - setupdll.sys

Fionn

don't know if this will point you in the right direction but Microsoft support states:

"The error that generates this message can occur after the first restart during Windows 2000 Setup, or after setup is finished. A possible cause of the error is lack of disk space for installation and system BIOS incompatibilities. For problems during Windows 2000 installation that are associated with a lack of disk space, reduce the number of files on the target hard disk. Check for and delete any unneeded temporary files, Internet cache files, application backup files, and CHK files containing saved file fragments from disk scans. You can also use another hard disk with more free space for the installation. BIOS problems can be resolved by upgrading the system BIOS version.

For more troubleshooting information about the 0x1E Stop message, refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base link, using the keywords winnt and 0x0000001E. For information about this resource, see “Additional Resources” at the end of this chapter"
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/prork/prhd_exe_bddb.asp

prospect

Okay here is the deal,

The machine was originally built with Windows ME installed. But I was given it, (foo-barred at the time) and a W2K Pro set-up disks.
I have just found out this info, and I am thinking that maybe the Mobo or something like that isnot compatible with W2K? Is this possible?
I am going to try a clean format of the machine, and then re-install WinME.

Gurgle

prospect wrote:

I have just found out this info, and I am thinking that maybe the Mobo or something like that isnot compatible with W2K? Is this possible?

Not likely.
W2K will run on practically anything.
What are the specs like ?

Lush

At this stage I would slap in a win98 boot disk and boot into DOS. Type in fdisk and then choose option to delete partitions and delete all partions etc. Then create a single partion and make it active. Then boot into DOS again and format the drive. (format c:) Once this is complete reboot and run scandisk, this isn't on the boot disk so you will need to copy it onto a floppy or use the win98 cd, which may need uncompressing I can't remember...Scandisk will repair the disk or mark out the damaged areas. If you have lots of bad spots on the disk, you will be be better getting another hdd. Sorry if I'm telling you what you may already know, I don't know your skill levels... :cool:

prospect

Lush wrote:

Sorry if I'm telling you what you may already know, I don't know your skill levels... :cool:

All help is appreciated. Skill level = Moderate.

I will try these few suggestions. Also, I'll get the details of the hardware.