How Do I Recover From BSOD?

[vilja]

I was doing a clean install and, after installing some of the drivers,
I rebooted and got the BSOD. The error is something to the effect of
"boot device inaccessibe". The question is, how do I recover from
this?

 

[George Hester]

Boot in Safe Mode and remove the driver that is responsible.

 

[Dave Patrick]

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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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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|I was doing a clean install and, after installing some of the drivers,
| I rebooted and got the BSOD. The error is something to the effect of
| "boot device inaccessibe". The question is, how do I recover from
| this?