I have no clue

[Guest]

I format an 8 Gig drive with windows 2000 and reinstalled fresh. I took this
HD and put it into my dell to see if it would boot up( my HD Burnt Out) It
came up saying no primary drive found so I went into the f2 boot and click on
C drive and booted that way and hey windows started but a blue screen came up
saying this.

Inaccessible_Boot_device
If this is the first time you've seen this error screen, Restart. If this
screen appears again, follow these steps.
check for viruses on your computer, remove and newly installed hard drivers
or hard drives controllers. Check your Hard drive to make sure its properly
configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drives corruption,
and then restart. I have change the the jumping cable also to be sure.
any clues?

Tony (e-mail address removed)

 

[John John]

I'm not sure I understand. You installed Windows 2000 on the drive in a
different PC (not the Dell)? If so it won't boot up in the Dell because
it was setup with different hardware. When you try to boot the Dell
with that Windows doesn't know what the heck is going on, different
motherboard, different video adapter and so on. Windows doesn't know
what to start. You can't just take a Windows 2000 hard drive and stick
it in a different pc and expect it to boot up. You will have to install
Windows from scratch on the dell.

John

 

[Guest]

Hey John John... I had no clue i just thought it would ..How can I install
windows from scratch?? I put the windows cd in the drive but wont let me
install its goes right into the blue screen?

 

[Steve Duff [MVP]]

Just put in the Win2K CD, choose to install, when it
says there is already a Windows-do-you-want-to-repair-it,
say yes. This will rebuild the hardware tree and should
allow you to boot. (The initial repair choice just replaces
files and does not rebuild the registry, which is what
you need.)

The best method BTW is to change the drive controller
to standard-dual-pci/ide before you take the drive out,
or if it is a SCSI system force-install the driver for the
new disk controller hardware before moving it.

Steve Duff, MCSE, MVP
Ergodic Systems, Inc.

 

[Enkidu]

I format an 8 Gig drive with windows 2000 and reinstalled fresh. I took this
HD and put it into my dell to see if it would boot up( my HD Burnt Out) It
came up saying no primary drive found so I went into the f2 boot and click on
C drive and booted that way and hey windows started but a blue screen came up
saying this.

Inaccessible_Boot_device
If this is the first time you've seen this error screen, Restart. If this
screen appears again, follow these steps.
check for viruses on your computer, remove and newly installed hard drivers
or hard drives controllers. Check your Hard drive to make sure its properly
configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drives corruption,
and then restart. I have change the the jumping cable also to be sure.
any clues?

Last time I looked at a Dell (some time ago) it had to be jumpered as
"Cable Select". Try that as a last resort.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Julie]

Put the HD back in the machine you used to install it originally. Then change the
drive controller to "standard dual IDE" and shut down. Now install the HD in
the other machine and you'll be fine. It will automatically load the correct driver.

You get that error when the controller chipset changes and you have a brand-specific
driver running.

 

[John John]

In addition to the advice that the others have given you if the Dell
always boots to the blue screen it probably is set to go to the hard
drive first. Go in the BIOS and set it to boot to cd first.

John