Service Pack 4-No boot disk

[esby44]

I just installed Win2K Service Pack 4 on my computer. Install went fine, went to restart, and blue-screen came up saying the boot disk is inaccessable.

A little history on the machine:
Main drive: 40GB WD
Other drives: 120GB SATA Seagate
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2
CPU: AMD-xp 2000+
RAM: 512MB (Kingston)

This unit was just put-together last month. System ran great until SP4 was installed.

Any suggestions/fixes are appreciated!!!

 

[wolluf]

Sounds like a driver problem (atapi.sys version in SP4 doesn't like your system drive?)

You could try a repair reinstall -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292175&Product=win2000

- which will return your installation to SP level of the install disk (but should preserve data, apps, settings) - but must admit I don't know why a common drive type like WD would be affected by this. Or you could just try replacing atapi.ys with an older version using recovery console (

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;229716).

You could also try running chkdsk from recovery console (try this first) & then retrying.

PS. Jumpers are set correctly on the drive? Have you tried with 120GB drive disconnected?

 

[SYAR2003]

Some interesting Windows 2000 SP4 Anecdotal Problems summary:

please read this page..

http://www.w2knews.com/anecdotes.htm

SYAR

 

[noobtechie]

Try getting in Safe Mode then uninstalling sp4, and or Last good know configuration. If that doesn't help try loading it from a bootdisk (

http://www.bootdisk.com)

and do a chkdsk /f.