Re: Win2k BOOT question

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centauri4 wrote:

Is there any chance the procedure outlined in
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311073
"Creating a boot disk for an NTFS or FAT partition"
would (actually) work??

No, that won't work. That is a procedure to use for different startup problems, not hardware changes.

It would be great if Microsoft offered a "realtime
reconfiguration" mode or something of that
sort which would accomplish the types of
tasks described in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;249694
"How to move a Windows 2000 installation to different hardware"

Windows 2000 is very touchy about anyone fiddling with the hardware, it goes into temper tantrums easily if you try to make changes it doesn't like! That in a way is what makes it stable with the hardware. You can easily add slaved drives, memory, expansion cards and even add processors, but changing the motherboard to something completely different is cause for a temper tantrum! And changing everything at once is cause for convulsions. 

I suppose that might be asking a lot.

For a bit I thought the Dell computer had settings
stored in CMOS which were preventing it from
recognizing the "new" drives, but I guess that is
not the case.  (Since the computer came from
someone else and I had no idea what type(s) of
hard drives had been previously installed in it.
Thought:  What if it had a RAID array or this is
no oridnary (home use) Dell box...  A corporate
cast-off maybe?...)

Re: 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

The message can be deceptive. The controllers on the board probably caused the error, not the drive itself.

The error message and Microsoft Knowledge-
base seemed to indicate recently installed hard
drives or drive controllers were at fault, but that
looks to have been only the FIRST LAYER of the
problem...  With the advice posted above I now
know it is likely the Dell would have remained
inoperable even if I managed to make my way
past the (my) perceived hard drive issue.

If not done properly and even if after 2 days of fiddling about to get it to work it most likely would result in a near disaster if it ever decided to start. The hardware is too different to even try something like that. If you were to move it to another similar IBM or from a Dell Intel board to another similar Dell there might be a faint hope but the leap you tried is too big.

John

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