Inaccessible boot device (0x0000007B)

[adail564]

I just upgraded my machine from a previously working system (P3 450Mhz) to a P4 1.3Ghz. This included a motherboard (Intel® Desktop Board D850GB, 400Mhz fsb), processor and (Rambus)RAM swap. Upon booting I get the bsod indicating inaccessible boot device. I've unplugged all ide devices except the bootable HD and floppy and problem still persists. When I use a 98 boot diskette to bring up diagnostics, it won't see the partitions due to ntfs I'm assuming. Fdisk sees the HD, but I don't want to modify anything. Does 2000 handle I/O initialization on the P4 components any differently than the P3?

 

[butchrecon]

This is a common problem I see with Windows 2000. When switching Motherboards, Unless you are using the same chipset, You will almost alway get the BSOD. I have so far only found 1 way of fixing this. REINSTALL! I hate it. I have tried Repair with ERD, Cant get into safe mode. The only thing I can think of is there is a problem with the Windows 2000 HAL. I never had the problem with NT4. NT4 I could just boot into safe mode and get rid of all the M/B resources and then replace the M/B and reboot. Then install the drivers. NOOO not with Win2K that does not work. Nothing seems to work. So I just reinstall.

Sorry for the Ramble> If anyone has any other solutions I wouls really like that. James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[adail564]

I found that for some reason the primary partition that contained the OS had been redesignated as a logical partition, and that no primary partition existed, hence the inaccessible boot device. Of course as stated this required a reinstall. Unless a program exists that can change the partition properties on the fly I don't see another way around it.

 

[mhughes]

This is a W2K issue. MS info:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q271/9/65.ASP?LN=EN-GB&SD=gn&FR=0