Win2K Spontaneous Reboot - Corrupted Drive

From: Jim (no_at_no.no)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:08:01 GMT

Hi

Strange occurrence. The computer has had Win2K on it for a couple of
years now, no serious problems. It's updated/patched regularly.
Tonight, the screen saver is active, so I hit a key to get back to the
desktop. Bam! Spontaneous reboot. While rebooting, after the POST
messages, there's a very long delay where nothing happens (black
screen). This lasts about 20 seconds. Then, I get an error:

Disk I/O error: Status = 00001000

Then another error:

Invalid boot.ini file
Booting from c:\winnt

Then I get the Win2K boot screen. When the status bar is almost filled,
I get a BSOD with the following error:

STOP: 0x000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

That's it, system is unusable (I tried booting into Safe Mode, same
sequence of errors). The really strange thing, this exact same thing
happened to my other computer 2 weeks ago (different hardware, same OS).
  I keep my virus definitions up-to-date and I have firewalls on all my
boxes. Anyone seen anything like this? On my other computer, I tried
booting from the Win2K CDROM, hitting Rescue mode and trying 'fixmbr',
but that didn't help. I rebuilt that box with XP (and a new HD), but I
don't want to have to do that with this box. It's very strange that two
machines exhibit the almost identical problem within weeks of each other.

Any suggestions, insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Jim

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