Hard Drive problem

[Silentsc0rn]

I recently bought a new motherboard because my old one broke anyway now I have run into a new problem, it is a Nvida Nforce 400 chipset board, I plug everything in and it starts up fine I go into the bios and set the defaults, then when it trys to boot up windows 2000 pro from my hardrive it goes into the starting windows screen with the blue bar at the bottom then suddenly comes up with a blue screen that says some numbers then, inaccesable_boot_device and a explination that I should check my hardrive. Everything else seems to be working properly. Anyone know if there is anything I can do? or does this mean I have to buy a new hardrive? I wasn't sure where this topic fit any help would be great thanks. I also have this in the motherboard forum.

 

[Texun]

You used your existing hard drive with an installed OS on a new board and chipset, correct? My guess is that the Windows OS barfs when loading because of the board change. You will most likely have to reinstall Windows.

 

[Achilles97]

Hello,
So it boots off a CD or floppy and installs Windows without a problem? That's weird, did you try reinstalling the OS just to see what happens?

I don't know, that sounds strange. You can format the hard drive and install Windows on it, but then it won't boot off it? Can you boot into SafeMode? Can you boot to a command prompt and browse the hard drive?

The only time I saw something like this happen was when a friend had the wrong type of processor in the mobo (Athlon Coppermine in a non-Coppermine mobo). Everything worked fine until it started loading Windows.

 

[Andyman53]

Originally posted by: Silentsc0rn
I recently bought a new motherboard because my old one broke anyway now I have run into a new problem, it is a Nvida Nforce 400 chipset board, I plug everything in and it starts up fine I go into the bios and set the defaults, then when it trys to boot up windows 2000 pro from my hardrive it goes into the starting windows screen with the blue bar at the bottom then suddenly comes up with a blue screen that says some numbers then, inaccesable_boot_device and a explination that I should check my hardrive. Everything else seems to be working properly. Anyone know if there is anything I can do? or does this mean I have to buy a new hardrive? I wasn't sure where this topic fit any help would be great thanks. I also have this in the motherboard forum.

He just plugged everything in and put it together with spit and luck. Thing is Silentsc0rn, since you changed your motherboard, evidently drasically enough for windows to recognize you'll have to reinstall windows and if that doesn't work, format and reinstall windows. Bottom line: Get your XP Setup cd warmed up

 

[Silentsc0rn]

The OS was already installed on the Hard Drive from before I got the new motherboard the new one is a differnt chip set and brand.

I haven't tryed to boot it off a floppy or a CD yet. If I put in the windows cd and start the computer up will it auto go into a install of windows?

I don't see where I have the chance to install anything there is no promts before it goes into the OS thats already on there.

I am pretty new to this so sorry.

Right now I dont have a windows cd but later I can get win XP I will try that if it will work.

I tryed safe mode and the same thing happend, and the CPU is fine for the mobo. Thanks for your help

 

[Texun]

Originally posted by: Silentsc0rn
The OS was already installed on the Hard Drive from before I got the new motherboard the new one is a differnt chip set and brand. I haven't tryed to boot it off a floppy or a CD yet. If I put in the windows cd and start the computer up will it auto go into a install of windows?
I don't see where I have the chance to install anything there is no promts before it goes into the OS thats already on there.
I am pretty new to this so sorry.

No problem. We all have to start somewhere. As I and Andy mentioned above, your "old" Windows install doesn't know what to do with the changes you've made. When it was installed on your old board it loaded the drivers it needed at that time, but now that you have the new board it basically throws a fit because it can't load the correct drivers and ends up giving you the blue screen. Once you get Windows reinstalled you're new board should be fine. I seriously doubt that you have any reason at all to worry about hardware.

You say you don't see any prompts? You won't see any unless you use a floppy or boot to "Safe Mode with Promot." No need to use that if you have a bootable CD. Just make sure the BIOS is set to boot from the CDR first. When you get your Windows CD it will boot from there and the autorun will lead you through the rest.

 

[Silentsc0rn]

Ok so I got a copy of Windows XP and tried it, it installs everything then reboots and goes into the windows XP start up installattion guide or whatever not hte blue screen one but the next one after, then has a fatal error called

Manidest Praise error : invaild at the top level of the document. Press ok to view the setup log file.

anyway it wont go past this point on the install?

Someone mentioned Formating the Hard Drive then installing windows, what do I do in order to format the drive before it boots from the windows CD?

Thanks for your help

 

[Silentsc0rn]

Anyone still here? Well if no one has any awnsers I am going to order a new 80 gig from new egg tonight and if I am lucky i might get it on friday. I still don't understand the manifest prase error? Thanks again

 

[sharq]

I wouldn't order a new hd, I don't think the hard drive is the issue. You just need to do a fresh install of windows xp or 2k. When you put in the cd for xp, it should provide you with information on the partitions that you have on the harddrive. This is the screen during the install after you have put the cd in and booted from it. This will basically tell you how much space you have and what the partition is called (eg C:, D: ). You can move your arrow keys up and down, and in the instruction on that same screen will be an option to delete the partitions. IF you do NOT have anything to save on the hard drive you are using, I would go ahead and delete the partitions. Then, when it presents you with just one entry that says that basically all the space is free, there will be an option to create a partition. Choose that, once you've created a partition (I advise using all the space on the harddrive for this one partition) then when you choose to install windows, it will ask if you want to format the drive. Windows xp install gives you 4 options, you will want to use the one that mentions NTFS. I know there are 2 that mention ntfs out of the 4. If you could post those 2 options, I could tell you which one to pick and then windows will install. It should work fine then.
Lemme know.

 

[Texun]

Can't help you much with the error but this might shine some light on the subject. LINK

Sounds like you are in the go-mode for a new hard drive so you might as well go for it. However, if the information in this link is correct then a new drive will not help. Are you using a real Windows CD????

 

[Silentsc0rn]

I managed to figure out what you said before you said it and yes I had two options to and one said quick and the other did not I did the non quick one which seemed to be what it was defaulting me to do. Right now its formating I'll keep you posted on the outcome. Thanks for your help

 

[sharq]

Yeah, non-quick one is the correct one. Sorry, havn't installed windows in a long time (Linux user primarily ). I'm here for a couple more hours, so I'll check this post every now and then. Lemme know what happens.

 

[Achilles97]

Hi, I'll be here for another hour, until midnight central US time. I'll check the posts before I go...

 

[Silentsc0rn]

After it formated and two differnt windows cd's later It works, thanks for all your help, the computer is runing fine now. Now alls I need is to get all my data back... oh well.

 

[MrChad]

FYI, there are ways to swap a motherboard on an existing Windows installation without reformatting.

There's an FAQ article on the topic.