No, tried that -- same error.
I ended up doing a new Win2k install and then accessing the old HD through
that.
David
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David Grabbe
Manager, Information Systems
Church of the Great God
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cgg.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:23 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: WOT: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error on Win2k
Can you boot into safe mode?
At 11:28 AM 3/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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/>
>
>
>
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