Guest aa Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 On booting a PC with multiple OS (w2k and XP), the OS selection screen shows OK Then after showing that initial W2K window (logo on white background), a blew screen with white letters reading STOP: 0x0000007B (0x817E7670,0xC0000032,0x00000000,0x00000000 Inaccessible_boot_device The other OS - XP still boots well What can I do?
Guest Dave Patrick Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device More info required. What is the history here. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "aa" wrote: > On booting a PC with multiple OS (w2k and XP), the OS selection screen > shows > OK > Then after showing that initial W2K window (logo on white background), a > blew screen with white letters reading > STOP: 0x0000007B (0x817E7670,0xC0000032,0x00000000,0x00000000 > Inaccessible_boot_device > > The other OS - XP still boots well > > What can I do? > >
Guest aa Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device First, I had power interruption when the computer was on Then I booted into w2k OK, but Outlook would not start. I booted into XP, it said that disk check is needed, I allowed it to compete disk chen and XP booted OK. Then I re-booted into w2k and got the blue-white "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@nospam.gmail.com> ???????/???????? ? ???????? ?????????: news:e2zfU#iLJHA.5648@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > More info required. What is the history here. > > > -- > > Regards, > > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. > Microsoft Certified Professional > Microsoft MVP [Windows] > http://www.microsoft.com/protect > > > "aa" wrote: > > On booting a PC with multiple OS (w2k and XP), the OS selection screen > > shows > > OK > > Then after showing that initial W2K window (logo on white background), a > > blew screen with white letters reading > > STOP: 0x0000007B (0x817E7670,0xC0000032,0x00000000,0x00000000 > > Inaccessible_boot_device > > > > The other OS - XP still boots well > > > > What can I do? > > > > > >
Guest Dave Patrick Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device I'd suspect file system corruption but you can try a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000 machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), and copy Windows 2000 versions of ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it. Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot. Below is an example of boot.ini. The default is to start the operating system located on the first partition of the primary or first drive (drive0). Then drive0 partition 2 and so on. [boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,1" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 0,2" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,1" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 1,2" -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "aa" wrote: > First, I had power interruption when the computer was on > Then I booted into w2k OK, but Outlook would not start. > I booted into XP, it said that disk check is needed, I allowed it to > compete > disk chen and XP booted OK. Then I re-booted into w2k and got the > blue-white
Guest aa Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Thank you, Dave, Could I get a bit of theory first to have understanding of what and why I will be doing. The same ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini are used by XP and it works. I know that ntldr and ntdetect.com for XP are different from those for w2k, but they are OK for w2k. Are u saying that these files might be partly corrupted, i.e. the part for XP is OK but the part for w2k is bad?
Guest aa Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Thank you, Dave, Could I get a bit of theory first to have understanding of what and why I will be doing. The same ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini are used by XP and it works. I know that ntldr and ntdetect.com for XP are different from those for w2k, but they are OK for w2k. Are u saying that these files might be partly corrupted, i.e. the part for XP is OK but the part for w2k is bad? Also if I replace my existing XP's files with w2k, my XP will not boot, and I will be left with no access to this help. Perhaps I should replace the XP's files with the XP's ones?
Guest aa Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Thank you, Dave, Could I get a bit of theory first to have understanding of what and why I will be doing. The same ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini are used by XP and it works. I know that ntldr and ntdetect.com for XP are different from those for w2k, but they are OK for w2k. Are u saying that these files might be partly corrupted, i.e. the part for XP is OK but the part for w2k is bad? Also if I replace my existing XP's files with w2k, my XP will not boot, and I will be left with no access to this help. Perhaps I should replace the XP's files with the XP's ones?
Guest aa Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Thank you, Dave, Could I get a bit of theory first to have understanding of what and why I will be doing. The same ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini are used by XP and it works. I know that ntldr and ntdetect.com for XP are different from those for w2k, but they are OK for w2k. Are u saying that these files might be partly corrupted, i.e. the part for XP is OK but the part for w2k is bad? Also if I replace my existing XP's files with w2k, my XP will not boot, and I will be left with no access to this help. Perhaps I should replace the XP's files with the XP's ones?
Guest Dave Patrick Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device I'm guessing there may have been some file system corruption on the Windows 2000 boot partition, that was the reason chkdsk ran and the system no longer starts. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "aa" wrote: > Thank you, Dave, Could I get a bit of theory first to have understanding > of > what and why I will be doing. > > The same ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini are used by XP and it works. I > know that ntldr and ntdetect.com for XP are different from those for w2k, > but they are OK for w2k. > Are u saying that these files might be partly corrupted, i.e. the part for > XP is OK but the part for w2k is bad? > >
Guest philo Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device "aa" <aa@microsoft.com> wrote in message news:uWwK$4iLJHA.5660@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > On booting a PC with multiple OS (w2k and XP), the OS selection screen shows > OK > Then after showing that initial W2K window (logo on white background), a > blew screen with white letters reading > STOP: 0x0000007B (0x817E7670,0xC0000032,0x00000000,0x00000000 > Inaccessible_boot_device > > The other OS - XP still boots well > > What can I do? > > Boot to XP then run chkdsk /f on the Win2k partition
Guest aa Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device thank you. How do I make sure that chkdsk /f runs on w2k partition? Does chkdsk /f takes a target drive letter as a parameter?
Guest aa Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Sorry my message triplicated for no obvious reason
Guest aa Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device if this is the case, then replacing the three files you mentioned will not help will it? Also if I have the second OS working can't I replace the three files from that OS without bothering with floppy?
Guest aa Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device An attempt to run chkdsk resulted in a message: File system NTFS CHKDSK cannot be executed as this volume is used by other processes. DO you want to run CHKDISK next time you boot in?
Guest aa Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device run chkdsk w2k_drive_letter: /f file check index check descriptors check No errors found Thereafter it booted OK Thank you Just one question left - if no erors were found and consequently corrected, how come simple run of chkdsk sorted out the problem?
Guest Dave Patrick Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Correct, it wouldn't help but boot.ini could be pointing to the wrong location. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "aa" wrote: > if this is the case, then replacing the three files you mentioned will not > help will it? > Also if I have the second OS working can't I replace the three files from > that OS without bothering with floppy? > >
Guest Dave Patrick Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device The disk drive may be failing. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "aa" wrote: > run chkdsk w2k_drive_letter: /f > file check > index check > descriptors check > No errors found > > Thereafter it booted OK > Thank you > Just one question left - if no erors were found and consequently > corrected, > how come simple run of chkdsk sorted out the problem? > >
Guest philo Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message news:OqBcihqLJHA.276@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > The disk drive may be failing. > > As a precaution yes, I'd run the manufacturer's diagnostic. Either way, backup the data on that drive then perform a repair install > -- > > Regards, > > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. > Microsoft Certified Professional > Microsoft MVP [Windows] > http://www.microsoft.com/protect > > > "aa" wrote: > > run chkdsk w2k_drive_letter: /f > > file check > > index check > > descriptors check > > No errors found > > > > Thereafter it booted OK > > Thank you > > Just one question left - if no erors were found and consequently > > corrected, > > how come simple run of chkdsk sorted out the problem? > > > > >
Guest Unknown Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Usually caused by a virus scanning program. "aa" <aa@microsoft.com> wrote in message news:elqWsApLJHA.5232@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Sorry my message triplicated for no obvious reason > >
Guest aa Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Re: Inaccessible_boot_device Thanks everybody who answered
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