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Emergency!!! Windows 2000 experts - I'm in deep.,..Please Help!

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novon

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Hi,

I was running windows 2k on an asus a7v, I switched the mobo for a msi k7t, rebooted, it detected everything, except it had trouble detecting the Via Bus Master drivers (the hard drives would load, but not the CD-Roms, so I switched to normal IDE drivers in win 2k and it worked fine, but no bus master, so I uninstalled all the IDE drivers under the device manager, thinking on the next boot, it would autodetect the bus master drivers, so I reboot and BAM - there is the win 2k blue screen - no driver for the hd to boot. So now I can't even get in with safe mode to change IDE drivers, and I have all these apps and docs that would be a pain to restore with a new install.

Here is the exact error on the bloe screen:

Inaccessible boot device

It come right after the "starting windows" status bar fills


How can I change the IDE drivers without booting into win2k (cause I can't) - anyone? please?
Otherwise that would mean a reinstall - which brings up another question - how can I get to my NTFS partition to save my docs and emails from the old install if I were to have to reinstall win2k?

If you need any other info, let me know, I'll be waiting here refreshing looking for answers.

Thanks for your help...
 
Someone recommended I isntall over the old install. It says if I choose to wite over the old install, it will delete all old user data, settings, etc. At this point, I just want to be able to access that drive and copy the user data to another drive. it is a NTFS partition, is there any way at all I can access it in a prompt format (without having to load win2k) to copy stuff off it? win98 boot disk won't work because it's NTFS, win2K boot disk just tries to install the OS. Pusing f8 and comand prompting still give the blue screen. What kind of boot disk can access NTFS?

thanks
 
try to boot from CDROM? Also, you can try the repair option. Even if you do a fresh install, your user data will not be erased, except for the settings in the registry. Just don't format the hard drive
 
one more thing, NT keeps track of several copies of hardware profile. Can you use that option to revert to last known good profile?
 
it says it will overwrite the old data (delete it) and there is only one profile.

Crap...looks like I'm going to have to do this the hard way
 
Ok. First thing you need to realize is that if you re-install the OS, every user and the computer will have a completely new and unique SID. So, if Setup detects an old user profile, lets say the Administrator account, it will create a new user folder in the form of user.computername or domainname.

You should be able to install Windows 2000 again and recover your user settings and data.

Hope this helps.
 
you can also just remove that hard drive and hook it up to a different computer and copy your data over. i would recommend doing a fresh reinstall regardless of what way you recover your data though.
 
I would recommend doing a clean install also, that?s after trying to recover most of your data, hopefully you will be able to recover it all. I find a lot of people spending hours, or even days trying to fix a problem because they didn?t do a clean install when installing new hardware (more so motherboards), and it would have taken them only 30 minutes to do a clean install.

One time I saw someone sticking their old HD in another comp, and that one got screwed up also, so I would say if you have to do it that way try installing as a slave or 2nd HD, and not the primary.

Have you tried the repair feature?
 
I know this sucks and you probably don't want advice other than what to do now, but if you make and ERD (Emergency Repair Disk) next time it will repair whatever you have done since the last time you made it. If you refresh this right before you make major chages you should be ok.

Go to Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Backup and there is your ERD option, third button down. Saved me some grief. This backup tool is so much better than the old versions.
 
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