RE: [ActiveDir] More Info... Inaccessible_boot_device - not AD but Ineed help !

[Joe Sargent]

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Do you mean just installing over the same directory?  Will that not overwrite the registry?  Is there a way to upgrade a W2K SP2 install with W2K SP2.  I thought the only option available was to replace.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris McEvoy
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:36 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] More Info... Inaccessible_boot_device - not AD but I need help !

Have you tried an in-place upgrade?

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Sargent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 February 2002 14:13
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Subject: [ActiveDir] More Info... Inaccessible_boot_device - not AD but I need help !

Thanks for all the replies and helpful ideas.  I think I have narrowed down the problem.  Here is what happened.  I added a drive to the machine and then went into the reconstruct of the raid controller and added the disk to the array.   All went well and rebooted. I then got this BSOD error....

 

0x0000007B (0xF241F848,0xC00000034..............)  INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

 

I get the starting Windows 2000 black screen, then I get the Windows 2000 GUI start screen.  Then goes to the BSOD.

 

Here is what I have done.....

 

All drives are auto ID so the ID is not the problem.

I reinstalled W2K on the server.  Boots fine into the newly installed OS (it is in a different directory). But still get the same error in the original OS. 

The boot.ini is correct

An NT boot disk doesn't work

Safe mode doesn't work

Repair console works, have run chkdsk, fixboot, fixmbr, and done the auto repair.

I do not have the ERD (I know I should have one)

 

My guess at this point is that the OS has lost the driver for the raid controller.  Is there a way can fix this by loading the registry hive and inserting the value?  If so, does anyone know where I can find that value?

 

Thanks,

Joe Sargent