Inacessible Boot Device: Windows 2000

[ahsia]

Here what happened, my friend has a 30gb HD with Windows 98 installed. He wants Windows 2000. Well, he has like 12 gb of data, so what I did what create a 2nd partition of 14gb, copy all his data to that 2nd partition, and then install Windows 2000 into the original 1st partition. I have a Windows 2000 images I can load through the network, which I did, and when it finished and restarted, Windows 2000 started to load, but then gave a BSOD with the Inaccessible Boot Device error. I think it is now seeing the 2nd partition as the C:, at least that's what Partition Magic says. What am I suppose to do? I tried FDISK /MBR, but that didn't do anything, I don't think. Please help!

 

[NukemAll]

Boot from msdos boot disk. run fdisk. set the drive partition you trying to boot from active. if the drive is on the secondary controller, move it to the primary.

 

[ahsia]

Tried that already, in FDISK, it shows the Windows 2000 partition as the active partition. But C: is still on the other partition.

 

[jonket]

I had the same problem. BSOD

It took some time to find out that Windows 2000 setup only supports ATA33. There is a hotfix from Microsoft, but better still, the problem is solved in Service Pack 2. But the trick is getting there. The hard disk has to be formatted in the computer that is going to use it or a computer with the same chipset. If the computer only supports ATA33 and reports the disk as ATA33( UDMA2), but the disk is ATA66/ATA100, then you'll also get a BSOD.

Solution: Simply use a 40 pin IDE cable (no change in the BIOS), boot from CD, partition the drive if nedded, format the partition you are going to use ( preferabally c: ) ( FAT32 or NTFS). When Windows 2000 install is finished update to Service Pack 2 and then you can put in the 80 pin cable again. Computer reads disk as ATA66 or ATA100. This is a one time operation for this particular disk and if you put in a new drive and intend to install Windows 2000 on it, then do the same thing. Best whishes and luck from Iceland, Jon

P.S. Please let me know by e-mail how things work out. (jonket@mi.is)