inaccessible_boot_device

[taylerliberty]

hello. i'm having a problem. i'm running windows 2000 professional. i originally had a 1.3 amd and elite group mb and upgraded to a new mb and 2500+ amd. well i put the hard drive in and wala, booted up just fine and started installing some new hardware etc. well after going thru device manager some things with exclamation like primary and secondary ide channels were there. so i proceeded to the mb disc with driver and went to install ide and said that ide miniport driver had to be installed first. so i went to the idetool miniport install and it hung before it finished. now i get inaccessible_boot_device everytime it boots.. ? not sure how to get it back up and running so i can get rid of the miniport driver and try to find the right driver for the channels.. help.. everything was working fine until that.. now i'm stumped.. i've tried recovery console, repair erd. etc and nothing works. i'm not sure where to look in the registry or how to get rid of the driver in dos.. not familiar with dos that much.. but the system won't boot with last known good config, safe mode, w/or w/o networking or command prompt.. help help help.....

 

[sh00der]

Presumably you backed up before you upgraded?? If so just reformat and re-install your Win2000.
If not can you boot from a floppy (or CDrom) and then access the data on the hard drive? Perhaps the filesystem is intact even though you can't boot from the disk? Then I think you'll need to back up what you want and reformat/reinstall.

I'm afraid that's all I can offer, I don't know how you could make the hard drive bootable from a dos prompt, it might be possible, I just don't know how to do it.

Even though you got into the system, surely you'd have to expect to reinstall the OS after upgrading the mobo and chip??