W2K bootup blue screen: 0x0000007b Inaccessible Boot Device

rh71 · February 13th, 2002, 07:58 PM

Getting the error message (stated in subject) everytime I bootup now. What I've done is swap over my harddrive into this case which has a better CPU/mobo. The harddrive contained a working W2K OS... now I'm getting that message after the swap into this new case.

Ideas? MS knowledge base isn't coming up with anything general... just specific stuff like IOMEGA, Compaq, Sysprep stuff (none of which I'm using). Also I made sure the jumpers are set correctly.

Thanks guys.

engracio · February 13th, 2002, 08:08 PM

rh71,

It's not a solution but whenever I swap a drive to another mobo, I get the same msg from W2K. Since I don't make repair disk, I just reformat and re-installed the OS.

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KenKun · February 13th, 2002, 08:15 PM

Hi

Agreed with engracio ..
win2k doesn`t like changing MoBo that was originally installed on... it will act weird in most cases ....

To format and reinstallis the best guess for stable performance ...

But!! .. you could try this (not sure if it will work at all)...
*boot into "safe mode" .. go to Device Manager and delete all drivers relaited to the old board and then reboot... your win2k might boot normally and detect the new drivers ....
*or try the repair option booting from the win2k CD ...

Regards

KraM · February 14th, 2002, 10:42 PM

This is just a suggestion, the problem is more likely due to KenKun's idea though.

I have had this problem before when I moved the HD to the RAID controller on my mobo after it had been on the normal IDE one. What happened is that the drivers for the RAID controller were not installed. So, what happened was: the NT loader booted the kernel and the kernel couldn't read the HD because no drivers. My point is: if you have the HD on a RAID controller move it to the mobo's normal IDE controller and install the RAID controller's drivers.

SEALTEAMTHREE · February 14th, 2002, 10:45 PM

If you can, take the HDD and plug it back into the old system, go into control panel>system>hardware>device manager and remove EVERYTHING that it will let you remove (including system devices). This way, W2K isn't looking for all of the old devices that were in your old system and also trying to deal with installing the new ones. That usually works for me. If it doesn't, you'll probably have to format and re-install.