Win2k/NTFS Hard Drive Security
 

I have replaced both the motherboard and CPU in this computer that has windows 2000 installed. When I try to boot, I get a stop error "inacessible boot device" shortly after the windows 2000 logo screeen appears. This happens for safe mode booting as well. I know that the hard drive works, since the last use of it was when I had it in another PC to grab some files off of it. I have tried an emergency repair installation of win2k from the install CD to no avail. I have run chkdsk /p from the emergency repair console, and it reported no errors. Therefore, I am certain that the drive is fine. So, what else would be causing this problem? I suspect winnt/ntfs drive security interference... how can I bypass this?

Re: Win2k/NTFS Hard Drive Security
 

Have you run the utility disk that came with your hard drives?

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Ouch... The NT kernel uses all sorts of very hardware specific drivers. Maybe you should have gone into the device list and deliberately deleted all of the system devices before moving the drive. Do you still have the old MB and CPU? Can you re-install them and try to get it to boot that way? If the original MB and CPU are gone, there might not be any way to 'fix' this now but a reinstall.

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It may be a disk controller issue. I have seen the exact same error when trying to ghostcast an old image to newer hardware. If the controller is different, the drive/image won’t boot. The drivers are located in the system32 folder and in the system32\drivers folder. I’m not sure if pasting them in will work or if they have to actually be installed. A bootable OS like BartPC will give you access to the disk (most times) If the board is a lot newer, or has a different brand chipset, you’ll have big issues there too.

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The old CPU died, so going back is not possible. Guess I will just have to install Windows over itself.

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I've found those to be 100% useless... My last dead HD passed the check 100% shortly before final failure. :rollseyes:

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I had to use them in order to get my 2k PC to accept the new Hard drive. It was a 160 gig HD. Without them Win2k would not install.

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If you find them to be useless, then you're wrong. An old computer, after being used for a while, starts to accumlate errors on the harddrive... The sectors with errors on them aren't listed as broken until you run Scandisk, and the computer keeps putting stuff on it. One of my 10 year old computers, an old 300 megahertz one, has half of it's hard drive destroyed due to these errors.

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Scandisk is not a tool that comes with the hdd floppy disk...

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Bah. You should use that instead, then.