Stop Error "Inaccessible Boot Device" --Help!!

[damonbla]

I have a HP Pavilion P3-1Ghz.512M Ram... Win 2000 Pro
My system was running fine... The other day I noticed Roxio Easy CD creator 5.0 Plat running sluggish and then finally froze up. This was the 3rd if 4th time I'd had trouble with this program, so.. I uninstalled it.... Then without rebooting I reinstalled a fresh copy... When the install was done it asked me to reboot... This is when the Blue Stop Error Screen saying "Inaccessible Boot Device" came up... I could not boot in Safe mode. I tried the option to restore the last known good config and the computer started up fine.... I then powered it down a day later for a storm near my home.. When I tried to boot up after the storm, I continue to get the Blue Stop Screen with the same message... I've tried System Recovery Console on the CD with no luck.. Tried FIXMBR and FIXBOOT from the console. I am able to view the drive contents when I boot up with a Win98 floppy.... Please help.... Damon, Houston, TX

 

[darranagl]

Have you tried to copy the NTDETECT and NTLDR onto the boot drive from your Win2k CD?
New Zealand, a great place to visit.

http://www.southland.org.nz

 

[damonbla]

When I copy the files from the CD, where on the boot drive do I copy them to? Do I just leave them in the C: root directory?

 

[darranagl]

Yes, the go into the root of c ( c:\ ).

The files which are in there now are hidden and usually only visable in Recovery console. New Zealand, a great place to live.

http://www.southland.org.nz

tokala@orcon.net.nz

 

[ezpete]

I have the same problem. Found this thread thread616-68263.

I haven't tried the fix yet but it seems that the best set of instructions is at

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBM/tip6100/rh6179.htm

Good luck. Try Nero instead of Roxio.