Windows 2000 BSOD "No Boot Device"

[PokeSmot]

Hey guys - I'm in serious trouble. I installed Roxio's Easy CD Creator on my brother's laptop. After it rebooted, I installed the 5.01 service update (I know.. I should be using Nero, but....) and I didn't read on the website that there was a flaw in Take Two (now they have an update for it??). After the service pack was installed, I rebooted it without putting that updated service pack on, and now no matter what option I choose on the win2k boot menu, it always BSOD's. Is there anyway I can fix this without reformatting?

I can probably use a bootdisk from win98 to get into dos on the computer. Is there anything I can do there? Also he just moved and doesn't have the win2k rescue disks/ win2k cd (left them at home). If he does a REPAIR using the win2k cd, will it delete all of his files??? Please let me know, cause he's pretty bored...

Pete

 

[Psychoholic]

In the boot menu you did try Last Known Good Configuration didn't you??? Did you create an ERD???

 

[PokeSmot]

Yup I tried last known good configuration, same thing. During the installation, WIN2k never asked me to make ERD's so i don't have any. The only thing he has is the CD and that's at our home (not his apartement).

 

[Psychoholic]

W@K doesn't ask you to create ERD's. You need to do this on your own just like W2K doesn't ask you to perform backups. Ironic that the ERD utility and the backup utility are located together isn't it???

At this point there's not anything else you can do it would seem, other than reinstall. The Roxio site itself cautions not to reboot until the patch is applied which you have done. This is part of researching your hardware and software when installing a new OS.

Chalk it up to experiance, and learn from it.

 

[Nevo]

Boot to the W2K CD.

Choose repair.

Choose recovery console.

Log in.

Do a LISTSVC command.

DISABLE all of Roxio's drivers.

ENABLE the driver for your drive controller. Set it to SERVICE_BOOT_START

With luck, that'll get you up and running.