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invalid boot device with win2k

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yazz

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this started to happen about a month ago on win2k professional. when i add an additional harddrive. any kinda harddrive to the system win2k pro comes up with a blue screen and says i have an invalid boot device. i have even turned off all detection on the primary and secondary controllers, except for the boot device, and i still get this blue screen. i have used different ide cables, new and old, and i still get the same error. what is going on? i even changed the bios setting to just boot the primary master harddrive and not to boot any other device (not even the floppy or try other devices option)....
any help would be appreciated without reinstalling the OS...

yazz
 

but.....
win2k can see additional scsi harddrives. plus it can also see CDROM drives on the IDE controllers... and cannot see harddrives on the RAID controller without crashing... wierd.... i use this computer a lot for tech work. i think something might have gotten corrupted when plugging a lot of harddrives in and out of the system....

the motherboard is a MSI K7T 266 PRO R 256MB DDR MICRON.... Geforce 256 Elsa and a realtek 10/100 network card are the only things in the system...
thanks
 
Likely you've changed a drive letter. See MS KB Article ID: Q234048 for info on how w2k assigns drive letters.
 
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