BSOD when I install Win2K - what's going on here? - FIXED!

[Muerto]

Yesterday I began to rebuild my system, a Win98 and 2K dual boot. I was able to install and set up Win98 with no problems what so ever. When I went to install Win2K everything went fine until I restarted my computer and entered the Win2K setup. It was able to analyze my hardware and install the system files but after that I got a BSOD with the following error message:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7463848, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

Does this mean that my hard drive (45GB 75GXP) is screwed? I ran the IBM drive fittness test and it didn't find any problems. I checked for viruses and found none. I also ran a scandisk and defrag on every partition - no problems. I tried reseating my memory, didn't help. I tried replacing it with two 64MB sticks of PC100 RAM and that didn't help either. I reset everything back to its default clock speed. My hard drive partitions are:

C: (Win98) 2GB
D: (Win2K) 3GB
E: (Everything else) 40GB

Up until now my system has been virtually error free, I haven't had a single crash in months. I've tried re-installing Win2K several times but I get the same error every time. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

 

[slipperyslope]

I have gotten that error when I installed different motherboards on a win2k machine. I would just try to reinstall win2k.

I think it sounds like it didn't detect something correctly.

Jim

 

[Muerto]

I've already tried re-installing it five times. I get the same error every time. This makes me think it's something else.

 

[Muerto]

^

 

[Passions]

PUll every device that is non critical, and try that. If still blue screens, replace parts one by one, like cpu, video, mobo. etc.

 

[camara120]

also use win98 and an antivirus utility to check for viruses... I had that problem one time... and my friends computer had a boot sector virus...once I got rid of it, I was able to install 2000 with no problems... just make sure that if it does have a boot sector virus...check all the floppies you have or it might get infected again

then again, I might be completely wrong d=

 

[dkozloski]

How are you trying to install Win2K, from a Win98 boot disk, from inside Win98, or booting from the Win2K CD?

 

[Muerto]

Never mind, fixed it. I forgot that Win2K can't recognize the Promise ATA100 controller on my A7V during set up. I put the HD on the 686A controller and it worked fine. After it was installed I put it back on the ATA100 one. Thanks guys.