Win2K Spontaneous Reboot - Corrupted Drive
From: Cindi (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/05/04
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:31:04 -0700
Did this by any chance, happen right after you had
downloaded the new service pack? Basically the same thing
is happening to me and that seemed to be the trigger.
>-----Original Message-----
>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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