Moving HD to another machine -> INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE?

[syncmaster108]

Hi:

I am having trouble to move my HD to another machine:
I have an ASUS A7A266 and an ECS K7S5A machine. I wanted to move the only hard drive installed on A7A266 to ECS K7S5A machine. I have installed Win2K pro with SP2 on it. However, after I installed the HD on K7S5A, and when I reboot the machine, I got the following blue screen error:


***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF741B84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE


I have installed lot of stuff on this HD, absolutely, I don't want to reinstall them....can you guys point me out how to solve this problem?

Thanks!

 

[Poontos]

Tried safe mode?

Might be too many changes for Win2K to handle -- I would recommend a fresh install of Windows after a motherboard change, anyway.

Guud Luck!

 

[stevewm]

Win2k/XP do not like being switched to different motherboards, you have to re-install the OS when you do this. This is espcially ture when the motherboard you switched to has a different chipset (a7a266 is uses ALi Magik chipset, ECS board uses SiS 735).

What is going wrong is that when you installed Win2k on the Asus board it installed all the drivers and set itself up for that board/chipset. When you switched them all those drivers and various settings don't work for the new board.

You can try booting in safe mode (F8 during boot) and removing everything from the device manager. Or boot with the old board and remove everything there. This will cause it to install the drivers for the new board, but it may or may not work.

Even if this does work your going to have stability problems. Its just a given that you need to reinstall your OS when you change motherboards. (In Win98 you can just delete a registry key and it will fix it, this doesn't work in 2k/XP however)

 

[syncmaster108]

Sorry, I forgot to mention I tried "safe mode", no good.... I really don't want to reinstall OS...that's a pain...

 

[KentState]

I ran across the same problem and basically Win2k is looking for your old system and settings when trying to reboot. Your best bet is to start over and save whatever you can off your old system.

 

[SaigonK]

<FONT size=1>Put the drive back into your original machine with the original Motherboard.

Open Contorl Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, IDE/ATAPI controllers.
Double click on the first item in the list.

Select "Update driver"
Then select "Display list of known items"
Once there it should show you the hardware name you clicke don and the option for "Standard IDE/ATAPI"
Select the standard one then reboot.
Once you are back into windows, shutdown and put the drive in your new PC.
It should come right up as normal, once you get into windows, install the new IDE controller drivers from the new motherboars cd driver disk.</FONT>

 

[sc0tty8]

Taking one drive from another machine to a new machine with differant hardware is not advisable. It can be done in win98 no prob, but win2k is differant. I would not recommend it. It will work if the chipset is the same or does not differ very much.

 

[Wik]

Moving a hdd to another machine in Win2K and XP can be done. I have done this a few times when I did not have time to reinstall.

Put your drive back into your old setup and try to boot again. If you can get it booted go to the device manager and change your ide bus master driver to standard, or just remove it. Shut down then move the drive over to the new system. It will then search out for all of your hardware again.

 

[MulLa]

Would booting off the CD and choosing the "R"epair option help at all?

 

[SaigonK]

It can be done and I also have done it numerous times.
It is easy as can be.

 

[NogginBoink]

sync,

SaigonK knows what he's talking about. Do what he says.

Basically, W2K is loading the device driver for the disk controller on the Asus but not loading the device driver for the disk controller on the ECS. That's what's causing the 7B.

-Noggin

 

[syncmaster108]

Thanks to SaigonK and everyone! it worked!!! Thanks, you guys are SOOOOOOO SMART

 

[SaigonK]

You are most Welcome!
I wouldn't say smart...just been there and done that!

 

[neil]

syncmaster108

I am also going to be doing a mobo switch.
This is what i have running currently:
Windows2000 sp2
Asus A7M
Athlon650
cruical 256mb

And here is the hardware that i am going to be switching to.
Epox 8KHA+
AMD2000+
512mb cruical 2100

I am just wondering, the only things from the device manager that you had to remove was the IDE devices?
You didnt have the uninstall anything under the System Device, USB controlers, etc.

Thanks.

I am just trying to find out everything that i need to know, so that i can make a quick and painless system switch.

-neil

 

[syncmaster108]

no need. Only remove change your HDD controller to standard one.
If you have different video cards, you better uninstall video card (Device manager and add/remove softwares) from your old machine before you plug it into a new machine.

 

[GasX]

Wow - goood to know as I am going to be doing the same thing next week.