Do you have 4 disks, or 4 partitions? What DOS routine are you running What recovery facilities do you have CD's, boot diskettes, Win2K CD, USB stick
If, as is likely, the normal partition has stopped booting win2K due to file, or directory corruption, can you install a new instance of the OS onto one of the other partitions Using Fdisk, or similar software, what 'properties show for the drives/partitions - Primary/secondary partitions FAT FAT32 NTFS Active, Hidden, Bootable Could even be that the boot.ini file just needs to be 'adjusted' Have you recently changed anything in that system - or had the system auto-run chkdsk at startup to 'fix' errors JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:52 AM Subject: Re: Inaccessible Boot Device > At 05:59 PM 12/26/2005, Bill Kingsbury typed: > >Run chkdsk from the Recovery Console on the installation CD, or > >on your Recovery Console CD, if you made one. > > > >c:winnt> chkdsk /? -- for command options > > > >This may be able to repair the disk; it worked for me last week. > > This is exactly why everyone should have at least a Recovery Console > CD but preferably their own diagnostic CD such as BartPE or my XpPe. > These diagnostic CDs can contain most if not all the diagnostic tools > that you've become accustomed to running while in Windows. Even MSFT > has improved their WinPE disks while others such as ERD Commander, > McAfee, Norton & others are creating or have created their own for you to buy. > > FWIW it maybe just that your ntldr file has gotten corrupted but > until you run some external diagnostic you won't be sure. > > > -----------+---------- > a Windows Xp based > Diagnostic & Recovery CD > <http://www.xppe.com/> > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
