inaccessable_boot_device

[guitarman566]

I am trying to add a 2nd Harddrive to my W2k Pro system and after windows start, I get the blue screen stating: inaccessable_boot_device. I know the harddrive and all the cabling is good. I can access the harddrive if I start the PC with the W98 recovery disk. And I formatted it but Win 2k will not run with this drive.

Please help

 

[Coffier]

If you switch the position of the drives on the hard drive controller, does that prevent the blue screen, especially if the other drive is bootable?

 

[heresahandle]

Have you checked the boot order in your BIOS settings?

Maybe it's looking for a floppy or cdrom

 

[Coffier]

Now that I come to think of it, it seems that you might have a Windows 98 boot record on that drive. The hard drive format needs to include a Windows 2000 boot record.

Also, the post about boot order intrigues me. Is the PC being booted from the original first drive or the new second drive?