Stop Error - Inaccessiable_Boot_Device

[Guest]

When I try to boot Win 2000 Professional, it comes up with the above Stop
Error. This occurs after the loading bar is full. It also does it in Safe
Mode.
I was not the original owner of the drive and don't know what happened prior
to my obtaining it.
A check of the drive using XP and a scan with an AV showed no viruses on it.
The drive is about 5 GB and is in two partitions, the first is 1 GB and
formatted using NFTS. The second is 4 GB and is formatted with FAT32.
The NFTS partiton contains the folders "Documents And Settings", "Recycler",
"System Volume Information" and "WINNT".
The FAT32 partition contains only "Recycler" and "System Volume Information".
Can someone help me fix this so I can boot the system?

Thanks in advance

 

[.:Gh0ST:.:ShAD0W:.]

Sounds like you will have to reinstall windows as some files are probably
missing or corrupt. Run a disk scan (http://www.hdtune.com/) on the hard
disk to check for bad sectors before reinstalling windows as if it has bad
sectors an error will occur again.

Note: don't forget to back up any important data.

 

[DL]

Is this drive from another sys? - if so you have to do a repair installation
of win2k
Did it boot before, on this sys?

 

[Dan Seur]

A 1GB partition is MUCH too small for W2k. 4-5GB is reasonable. Even if
you get W2k running as you propose to in that NTFS partition, you'll be
in for continuing headaches.

If you have other drives on that machine you'd be much better off
repartitioning/reformatting that drive as one NTFS partition (for the
OS), and probably putting the pagefile on some other drive.

One other benefit of reformatting the entire drive is that the reformat
will scan for bad surface areas and mark them unusable.

When I try to boot Win 2000 Professional, it comes up with the above Stop
Error. This occurs after the loading bar is full. It also does it in Safe
Mode.
I was not the original owner of the drive and don't know what happened prior
to my obtaining it.
A check of the drive using XP and a scan with an AV showed no viruses on it.
The drive is about 5 GB and is in two partitions, the first is 1 GB and
formatted using NFTS. The second is 4 GB and is formatted with FAT32.
The NFTS partiton contains the folders "Documents And Settings", "Recycler",
"System Volume Information" and "WINNT".
The FAT32 partition contains only "Recycler" and "System Volume Information".
Can someone help me fix this so I can boot the system?

Thanks in advance


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[Guest]

A 1GB partition is MUCH too small for W2k. 4-5GB is reasonable. Even if
you get W2k running as you propose to in that NTFS partition, you'll be
in for continuing headaches.

If you have other drives on that machine you'd be much better off
repartitioning/reformatting that drive as one NTFS partition (for the
OS), and probably putting the pagefile on some other drive.

One other benefit of reformatting the entire drive is that the reformat
will scan for bad surface areas and mark them unusable.





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I forgot to mention - I do not have any of the original install disks
(though I did mention I was not the original owner.)
If someone could provide a list of files that must exist to boot properly, I
can make sure they exist, and if they don't, add them.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Without the installation media you have no chance of repair. As Dan
mentioned the boot partition is woefully too small anyway. I'd start a clean
install of something using the entire disk.

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| I forgot to mention - I do not have any of the original install disks
| (though I did mention I was not the original owner.)
| If someone could provide a list of files that must exist to boot properly,
I
| can make sure they exist, and if they don't, add them.

 

[Dan Seur]

The W2k install files number 5300+ organized in 90+ directories,
totaling 300+MB. And that's just the basic system directory, not
including ancillary goodies. That directory is named "i386", and if you
can find it on your machine somewhere you can reinstall W2k and at the
same time repartition/reformat the drive as suggested.

Your problems cannot be solved by correspondence in a newsgroup.

Please consider buying a W2k CD, with its install key. I believe they
now cost around $10-20 on Ebay or at your corner PC Fixit shop.

:





I forgot to mention - I do not have any of the original install disks
(though I did mention I was not the original owner.)
If someone could provide a list of files that must exist to boot properly, I
can make sure they exist, and if they don't, add them.


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[Guest]

It appears I will not be able to use this Windows. Never mind then.
Thanks for your help anyways.

 

[Dan Seur]

You're welcome, and good luck.

It appears I will not be able to use this Windows. Never mind then.
Thanks for your help anyways.


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