Guest Phisherman Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 I have an old Sony PC with a Promise hard drive controller, Maxtor hard drive and another (old) hard drive. The promise drivers show on-screen, but halfway through the Win 2000 Pro boot up process the machine stops (blue screen of death) with Inaccessible boot device. Use Chkdsk /f ... I attempted to boot from a floppy or (Win 2000) CD, but that results in a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. I looked in the BIOS to make the boot order: removable devices, then CD, then hard drive. The floppy I have contains the following hidden files: boot.ini ntdetect.com ntltr I can access the BIOS. It shows the correct time and hardware settings so I don't think the MoBo battery cell is bad. I have another (working) Windows 2000 Pro PC to help with troubleshooting. How can I get this PC to boot from a floppy? What other things should I test? Please help!
Guest Ron Badour Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: PC won't boot O/S This is an XP newsgroup so you might want to consider posting to: windows.public.win2000.general -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "Phisherman" <noone@nobody.com> wrote in message news:18brb3hnvcbfhdkr1auo93087bkmtbn1c6@4ax.com... >I have an old Sony PC with a Promise hard drive controller, Maxtor > hard drive and another (old) hard drive. The promise drivers show > on-screen, but halfway through the Win 2000 Pro boot up process the > machine stops (blue screen of death) with > > Inaccessible boot device. Use Chkdsk /f ... > > I attempted to boot from a floppy or (Win 2000) CD, but that results > in a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. I > looked in the BIOS to make the boot order: removable devices, then > CD, then hard drive. The floppy I have contains the following hidden > files: > > boot.ini > ntdetect.com > ntltr > > I can access the BIOS. It shows the correct time and hardware > settings so I don't think the MoBo battery cell is bad. > > I have another (working) Windows 2000 Pro PC to help with > troubleshooting. > > How can I get this PC to boot from a floppy? What other things should > I test? Please help!
Guest Phisherman Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: PC won't boot O/S On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:44:22 -0500, "Ron Badour" <Sorry@NoAddress.com> wrote: >This is an XP newsgroup so you might want to consider posting to: >windows.public.win2000.general My bad--Sorry about that. (But, don't Windows 2000 and XP have a lot in common?)
Guest Uncle Grumpy Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: PC won't boot O/S Phisherman <noone@nobody.com> wrote: >>This is an XP newsgroup so you might want to consider posting to: >>windows.public.win2000.general > > >My bad--Sorry about that. (But, don't Windows 2000 and XP have a lot >in common?) Just go there.
Guest Ron Badour Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: PC won't boot O/S A lot in common, yes, but not the same; therefore, you take the chance of getting well intentioned but wrong info. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "Phisherman" <noone@nobody.com> wrote in message news:0fasb3lpqak6bqk5i625450fktjnrdmiuk@4ax.com... > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:44:22 -0500, "Ron Badour" <Sorry@NoAddress.com> > wrote: > >>This is an XP newsgroup so you might want to consider posting to: >>windows.public.win2000.general > > > My bad--Sorry about that. (But, don't Windows 2000 and XP have a lot > in common?)
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: PC won't boot O/S On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:26:42 GMT, Phisherman <noone@nobody.com> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:44:22 -0500, "Ron Badour" <Sorry@NoAddress.com> > wrote: > > >This is an XP newsgroup so you might want to consider posting to: > >windows.public.win2000.general > > > My bad--Sorry about that. (But, don't Windows 2000 and XP have a lot > in common?) Yes, a lot in common--but not everything in common. Relying on information pertaining to one, unless you *know* it's also true of the other, can get you into a *lot* of trouble. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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