Inaccessible Boot device following major system change

[David]

Recently one of our W2K boxes went down and we had to
change the motherboard and power supply. Now the machine
fails to boot citing an inaccessible boot device. I have
tried the 'mergeide.reg' method I used ERD2002 to boot to
WinPE and then imported the key as I had no option to
'merge' the reg key in PE environment. Well the MS
solution failed at least in the two instances I have tried
it. Can anybody further elaborate on what exactly the
machine is trying to access? That way I can simply either
xcopy it to its proper location and or rewrite the file so
it has the right values and will boot the harddrive.

 

[Kevin McNiel [MSFT]]

You can get a Stop 0x0000007b caused by other things than the controller
driver such as filter drivers. You can load the System hive of the original
installation in Regedt32 and look at the following keys for upper or lower
filters:

HKLM\Temp\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
--- and ---
HKLM\Temp\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{71A27CDD-812A-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}

If you see something other than Diskperf or PartMgr, back up the key, delete
the other entries, unload the hive, then try to boot back to Windows. A
similar process is documented in Knowledge Base article 286214: "STOP 0x7B"
Error Appears After Uninstalling Veritas Open Transaction
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=286214.

If you are confident that the issue is with the controller/driver, if this
is not a domain controller, an in-place upgrade should resolve the problem.
See the following articles for additional information:

292175 How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292175

306952 What an In-Place Windows 2000 Upgrade Changes and What It Does Not
Change
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=306952

Kevin McNiel, MCSE/MCSA
Platform Server Setup Group

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