One solution is to get a new machine which does boot, and temporarily hook this drive up as an additional slave to the IDE - and see whether you can 'see' it as a drive from the first one. At least you might be able to rescue some data from it that way.
David Clover ======================== IT Support Manager Maths and Computing Faculty The Open University ======================== Ext: 59367/53529 Tel: 01908 653529 Fax: +44 (0)709 236 3568 Voicemail: +44 (0)705 069 9440 ======================== -----Original Message----- From: David Grabbe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 March 2002 16:54 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error on Win2k Both systems (fried and new) are IDE...the old m-board is "legacy" (old) enough that I haven't been able to find a matching model. David -----Original Message----- From: Neil H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 11:45 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error on Win2k Are you using the same Drive Controller (I.e. IDE or SCSI). We have found that if you have the same motherboard to use temporarily you can install drivers for whatever else you are using beforehand. Let us know what you figure out. Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Grabbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 11:28 AM Subject: WOT: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error on Win2k > Hello all, > > This is not even remotely a CF question :) but the contributors to > this list have a broad range of experience, so I'm hoping somebody has run > into this before and has a solution. > > One of our older Win2k machines went down -- the m-board is fried > (bad power supply) but the HD seems to be OK. I tried hooking up the old HD > with a new m-board/processor. When I try to boot up, Windows starts going > through its normal boot sequence, but then always "blue-screens" with a STOP > error message that says "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE". I've gleaned enough > from MSDN to know that Win2k doesn't like it when there is a radical > hardware change (i.e. different motherboard and proc), but their suggestion > to "reinstall Windows" isn't an option at this point. Has anyone run into > this before? Any solutions? > > Greatly appreciative, > David > > > > ------------------------------------ > David Grabbe > Manager, Information Systems > Church of the Great God > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.cgg.org <http://www.cgg.org/> > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Why Share? Dedicated Win 2000 Server · PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionc FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
