Windows 2000 booting problem! HELP please!

[nicowju]

I recently replaced the motherboard in my computer (Abit KT7-RAID now), and now I have problems booting into windows 2000 professional. It gets up to the screen with the pretty colors, with teh cycling color bar. But when it gets half way across, it slows to a crawl,m and stays that way for the rest, then ifnally i get a Blue screen(!!) AND it says "INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE"
What can I do? Do I need to reinstall? Help please!

 

[AkumaX]

nicowju,

i had that problem, too. what you have to do is install the highpoint controller when installing windows 2000. hope that helps

 

[nicowju]

Thanks I had to do that. But its more complicated, due to the massive amount of junk I have in my system 🙁 So now I'm stuck in Inaccessible Bood Device things still 🙁
Not sure what! 🙁

 

[MulLa]

What motherboard did you have before? What you can do is put your drives back on the standard IDE controllers not the HPT ones. Then you install those HPT drivers. Then moves the drives back to the HPT controllers. That should fix things up for ya.

 

[nicowju]

Ya I know that, but I don't have that old mobo anymore 🙁 Oh well looks like a reinstall for me. Unless anyone has any ideas on how to use the Recovery Console (already tried killing some "Boot" services, but maybe I didn't kill enough?)
Thanks

 

[BruinEd03]

Did you try running win2k in safe mode? See if you can do that at least...and then i guess you could delete all your old m/b drivers and let win2k detect the new ones? Aside from that it's probably healthy that you do a new install anyways. Just hope you don't have any important data you'll lose!!

-Ed

 

[MulLa]

Hmm... From you original post it suggested that you had problem actually booting into the drive. Isn't there any non-HPT controllers on the Abit KT7-RAID?? You don't actually have to use your old mobo again. Just plug them into the standard controllers on your KT7-RAID and it should boot up fine again.