INACCESIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE -Upgrading from 2000 pro to XP pro

[zed994]

Hello,
I am in need of help badly,

last evening i was attempting to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 7000 from Windows 2000 Professional to Windows XP professional as the rest of my home network was this, i Flashed my BIOS to "A15" from dell and started the install, after the first reboot it comes up saying it cant access the
"drvindex.inf" from the cd.

I thought all was well and rebooted as it asked me to, well i was wrong as on reboot i got the message - 0x0000007b (0xf741b84c, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

Could Somebody PLEASE help as i need my computer badly.

Thankyou In advance

Alex

 

[jyrockck]

The best thing to do would probably be to do a Windows XP clean install via the BIOS. Set your boot priority and let the BIOS pick the CD-ROM up on startup.

 

[zed994]

Thankyou, but what about saving some of my files is there a way to do this through the recovery prompt with the windows 2000 boot disks(to my network etc??), as to do a clean install is it not needed to delete old windows files etc.. or what is the best way to do a clean install??

Thankyou

Alex