INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE - Blue Screen 1

[SteadySystems]

Oh great, the Blue screen of death. Why must Microsoft be so sensitive? Ok, here is what I did.

I have a machine at work called CDBURN which I download all my mp3's, apps to. It has a C drive and an extended partition D drive. This machine also has a CD burner (E and a DVD player (F.

Well, I wanted to transfer all the data from the D partition on CDBURN to my home computer, which has two large drives. So I took the hard drive out of CDBURN and brought it home. I unplugged my CD Burner on my home computer, plugged in the hard drive (from CDBURN) and booted it up fine. Was able to browse to the new drive and copy the data to my E drive, which has all my data, apps, mp3's.

When I got back to work, I put the drive back in the CDBURN machine, it detects but now I get a the blue screen of death that says INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE. I tried safe mode and same result. Even tried Last Known Good Config, still nothing.

Any advice is appreciated!

Steady Systems

 

[1stITMAN]

Well is it still set as slave you need to change to master?

Zaheer Ahmed Iqbal
I.T Systems Support Engineer
Bsc. (Hons).

 

[SteadySystems]

Oh come on now

Of course its set to master.

 

[lasithg]

Im not sure which OS ur referring to, but my guess it's Win2K or XP, in which case cant u try reparing the installation ?
Lasith G

 

[SteadySystems]

Lasith, this is a windows 2000 professional forum. what do you mean repair the installation? I have no repair cd or disk.

Still looking for a savvy tech to share his knowledge on this

Cheers,
Daniel

 

[lasithg]

Yes Sorry I'm looking at a few forums, so I didnt read the forum name. Anyway I think Booting off a Windows 2000 Profesional CD and using the R-Repair Option is one method,

Another Method is to try to re-install Win2K/WinXp on ur D partition, once the comptuer restarts after the DOS part of the installation press F8 and select the existing OS, (U get only a second before the new installation proceeds) and boot (hopefully...) after which u can delete the unwanted directories off ur D partition

and edit the contents of the boot.ini in ur system partition (C)

Rgds
Lasith

 

[SteadySystems]

Thats fine, I can try that. But my concern is WHAT HAPPENED.?

 

[danomac]

SteadySystems:

What happened is when you installed your work HD at home it installed new drivers for the IDE controller that was in your computer.

When you brought it back to work, W2K was expecting *your* motherboard with that drive controller. It didn't find it and gave you a blue screen.

INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE usually refers to when Windows can't load the IDE drivers.

D

 

[danomac]

Also, ethics-wise:

If your company catches you downloading stuff with their internet connection you can be reprimanded or (severe cases) fired. FYI.

D

 

[SteadySystems]

Thanks a ton Danomac, you get a star for the explaination. Ran off the repair CD and it said I didnt have a drive installed. I tinkered with the HDD , reseat the power and the ribbon.

Powered it on and VIOLLAA!!



Thanks!

 

[SteadySystems]

You didn't just say that. HAH!

 

[lasithg]

danomac/steadysystems..
I think the prob was solved, but correct me If i'm wrong, but SteadySystems...u didnt boot at home with the CDBurn Drive, If I read from ur note, it was just a secondary drive so in reality, the OS of the CDBurn couldnt have been affected. (ie. the IDE Controller Installation would not have happened at home..)

LasithG

Lasith G.
B.Sc (Hons), MIEEE
Coordinator - ITRC,USJP

http://www.sjp.ac.lk

 

[bcastner]

lasithg,

I too thought 1stITMAN was treated poorly here as well.

 

[SteadySystems]

Thats correct. I used my normal drives on the home pc. The CDBURN drive was just added as another drive, in place of the cd rom I had plugged in.

 

[SteadySystems]

Look who dropped by.. Hi bcastner!

 

[danomac]

Heh,

After reading it I noticed it wasn't the drive that was booted. Oops.

I have just "moved" a few HDs around with Windows 2000 on them successfully; that's why I thought he booted from the drive. I'll have to read more carefully next time.



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