Inaccessible_boot_device error...

[EighTT]

I attempted to install PowerQuest Drive Image Special Edition from the Fujitsu Lifebook B Series Driver and Applications Restore CD. The installation failed unexpectly and I received an error message.

The computer then rebooted. At first everything looked fine. However, immediately after the Windows screen, I get the blue screen of death and an error message which reads STOP: 0x0000007B "Inaccessible_Boot_Device" .

Now I cannot access my hard drive or boot my computer up. I've tried safe mode, etc. I am not too happy about this. This unit is running Windows 2000 Pro.

Currently, I cannot boot from the floppy disk, as the seller did not send me the necessary hardware. I think I'm just out of luck until I can boot from the A drive. I have a PC Card external CD Rom, but I don't see how to boot from it.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[doan]

If you can't boot from CD or floppy you might consider picking up an adapter to use your laptop drive in a standard PC.

 

[EighTT]

I don't have a standard CD. Besides, there is no info that I care about on this particular laptop, so I could care less if I have to reinstall the OS, format or whatever. It's just that I don't see a way (now without a floppy drive) to get past this error or boot Win2000 from CD ROM to repair/recover.

 

[Webthug]

Originally posted by: EighTT
Fujitsu Lifebook B Series Drive

I am currently lead to believe that Fujitsu are currently facing a class action for their sale and contlinued distribution of very poor quality hard disks. What i think has happend to your hard disk is that it has died, or part of it has died, a part of your disk that Windows XP is trying to install data onto. Any how get the money back on the hard disk and go and get a WD or a Seagate bacause if you have it replaced with a Fujitsu drive you will have similar problems.

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: Webthug

Originally posted by: EighTT
Fujitsu Lifebook B Series Drive

I am currently lead to believe that Fujitsu are currently facing a class action for their sale and contlinued distribution of very poor quality hard disks. What i think has happend to your hard disk is that it has died, or part of it has died, a part of your disk that Windows XP is trying to install data onto. Any how get the money back on the hard disk and go and get a WD or a Seagate bacause if you have it replaced with a Fujitsu drive you will have similar problems.

I disagree.

A STOP 0x7B means there's something wrong in the driver stack for the hard drive. Causes of this would include otman5.sys (Veritas open transaction manager), various versions of Roxio/Adaptec CD burning software, and any drivers that PowerQuest may have put in there.

It can typically be fixed by laying down a parallel install and mounting the registry of the dead OS from the parallel OS. But describing the process here is not easy. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811408 will probably fix the problem.