Re: problems re-installing win2k: inaccessible boot device & others

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:43:58 -0600

In addition to Eric Mcg's reply. You didn't mention the drive controller
(possibly SCSI, or ultra DMA, or ATA100, or raid, or serial ATA), but you
may need to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks or CD-Rom and *F6* very early
and very important (at setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to
prevent drive controller detection, and select S to specify additional
drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied
Windows 2000 driver for your drive's controller in drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use. 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"b r a l l" wrote:
| Win2K
| 256mb
| P4 1.6
| Soyo P4 Dragon Ultra MB
|
| I have been trying to re-install my Win2K and have been encountering
| some problems.  I usually have three hard drives installed, but for
| this install I disconnected the two secondary drives and left the
| master that contained the OS.  I've had a couple different things
| happen.
|
| 1) I was running the install off my floppies.  When it was going
| through the setup, it gave me an error saying it could not find a hard
| drive.
|
| 2) The second time, I ran the clean install off the CD.  I can get
| into Windows, which makes the error in case 1 strange.  This goes fine
| through the first step.  Upon re-booting, when the computer loads it
| gives me the following error:
|
| 0x0000007B
| Inaccessible boot device
|
| Can anyone assist me with this?  I've had on-going problems with
| trying to re-install Win2K.  The last time I had to do this, once I
| finally got it working I still encountered some on-going errors
| despite the clean install.
|
| I'm thinking of just re-formatting the hard drive completely and
| starting from scratch.  Can someone walk me through this process as
| well?
|
| Thanks!

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