Booting up old Dell Optiplex GX260 "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" error

[Guest Ant]

Hello,

 

My father's old Dell Optiplex GX260 with Windows 2000 SP4 (all updates)

gave an "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" error. It happened right after the

loading graph reached "C" in "Corporation". I had to use a non-Dell 2000

(I don't think it is slipstreamed with a SP) CD and go to its recovery

console (not repair install) and do a repair. After it was done, it said

it finished repairing some issues (didn't specify what type of issues).

 

Machine was rebooted automatically and Windows 2000 SP4 booted up fine.

I did not see any problems after that. I checked the event logs and

didn't see anything about the issues I ran into earlier. I did notice

the OS was last booted and shut down on 12/15/2007. I do recall getting

updates from Windows Updates. I doubt they were related because they

required a reboot.

 

My question is what happened? How often this problem occur? And is there

a way to find out what chkdsk did in its repair? Thank you in advance. :)

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[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: Booting up old Dell Optiplex GX260 "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" error

 

Usually means that boot.ini is no longer pointing to the boot partition or

possibly a controller driver issue.

 

If a volume's dirty bit is set, this indicates that the file system may be

in an inconsistent state. The dirty bit can be set because the volume is

online and has outstanding changes, because changes were made to the volume

and the computer shutdown before the changes were committed to disk, or

because corruption was detected on the volume. If the dirty bit is set when

the computer restarts, chkdsk runs to verify the consistency of the volume.

 

When Autochk runs against a volume at boot time it records its output to a

file called Bootex.log in the root of the volume being checked. The Winlogon

service then moves the contents of each Bootex.log file to the Application

Event log. One event log message for each volume checked is recorded. So

check the application event log for details.

 

 

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"Ant" wrote:

> Hello,

>

> My father's old Dell Optiplex GX260 with Windows 2000 SP4 (all updates)

> gave an "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" error. It happened right after the

> loading graph reached "C" in "Corporation". I had to use a non-Dell 2000

> (I don't think it is slipstreamed with a SP) CD and go to its recovery

> console (not repair install) and do a repair. After it was done, it said

> it finished repairing some issues (didn't specify what type of issues).

>

> Machine was rebooted automatically and Windows 2000 SP4 booted up fine. I

> did not see any problems after that. I checked the event logs and didn't

> see anything about the issues I ran into earlier. I did notice the OS was

> last booted and shut down on 12/15/2007. I do recall getting updates from

> Windows Updates. I doubt they were related because they required a reboot.

>

> My question is what happened? How often this problem occur? And is there a

> way to find out what chkdsk did in its repair? Thank you in advance. :)

> --

> "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise: which having

> no guide, overseer or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer and

> gathereth her food in the harvest." --Proverbs 6:6-8 (Bible)

> /\___/\

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[Guest Ant]

Re: Booting up old Dell Optiplex GX260 "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"error

 

Re: Booting up old Dell Optiplex GX260 "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"error

 

On 1/6/2008 5:09 PM PT, Dave Patrick typed:

> Usually means that boot.ini is no longer pointing to the boot partition

> or possibly a controller driver issue.

>

> If a volume's dirty bit is set, this indicates that the file system may

> be in an inconsistent state. The dirty bit can be set because the volume

> is online and has outstanding changes, because changes were made to the

> volume and the computer shutdown before the changes were committed to

> disk, or because corruption was detected on the volume. If the dirty bit

> is set when the computer restarts, chkdsk runs to verify the consistency

> of the volume.

>

> When Autochk runs against a volume at boot time it records its output to

> a file called Bootex.log in the root of the volume being checked. The

> Winlogon service then moves the contents of each Bootex.log file to the

> Application Event log. One event log message for each volume checked is

> recorded. So check the application event log for details.

 

Here's the exported application log from Event Viewer:

1/6/2008 4:51:42 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 7 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

New virus definition file loaded. Version: 100102b.

1/6/2008 4:50:58 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 16 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Manual LiveUpdate successfully downloaded Virus Definitions.

1/6/2008 4:43:16 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET_2.0.50727 performance library because it

returned invalid data: 0x0

1/6/2008 4:43:14 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET performance library because it returned

invalid data: 0x0

1/6/2008 4:42:18 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 16 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Download of virus definition file from LiveUpdate server failed. 00000001

1/6/2008 4:42:09 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 14 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus services startup was successful.

1/6/2008 4:42:08 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 23 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus Realtime Protection Loaded.

1/6/2008 4:42:03 PM Winlogon Information None 1001 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Checking file system on C:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

 

 

One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You

may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended

that you continue.

Windows will now check the disk.

Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.

Cleaning up 28 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.

Cleaning up 28 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.

Cleaning up 28 unused security descriptors.

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the

master file table (MFT) bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.

 

40106272 KB total disk space.

8766404 KB in 41929 files.

12408 KB in 2911 indexes.

0 KB in bad sectors.

126349 KB in use by the system.

65536 KB occupied by the log file.

31201110 KB available on disk.

 

512 bytes in each allocation unit.

80212544 total allocation units on disk.

62402221 allocation units available on disk.

 

Windows has finished checking your disk.

Please wait while your computer restarts.

 

1/6/2008 4:42:02 PM SceCli Information None 1704 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Security policy in the Group policy objects are applied successfully.

1/6/2008 4:41:49 PM WMDM PMSP Service Information None 105 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX The service was started.

1/6/2008 4:41:43 PM NMSSvc Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

started.

1/6/2008 4:41:42 PM Iap Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service started

12/15/2007 10:47:47 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 16 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Virus definitions are current.

12/15/2007 9:02:57 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET_2.0.50727 performance library because it

returned invalid data: 0x0

12/15/2007 9:02:57 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET performance library because it returned

invalid data: 0x0

12/15/2007 9:02:05 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 14 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus services startup was successful.

12/15/2007 9:02:03 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 23 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus Realtime Protection Loaded.

12/15/2007 9:01:52 PM WMDM PMSP Service Information None 105 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX The service was started.

12/15/2007 9:01:48 PM NMSSvc Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

started.

12/15/2007 9:01:47 PM Iap Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

started

12/15/2007 3:56:19 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET_2.0.50727 performance library because it

returned invalid data: 0x0

12/15/2007 3:56:17 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET performance library because it returned

invalid data: 0x0

12/15/2007 3:54:07 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 14 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus services startup was successful.

12/15/2007 3:54:05 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 23 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus Realtime Protection Loaded.

12/15/2007 3:53:54 PM WMDM PMSP Service Information None 105 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX The service was started.

12/15/2007 3:53:50 PM NMSSvc Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

started.

12/15/2007 3:53:46 PM Iap Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

started

12/15/2007 3:30:15 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 7 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

New virus definition file loaded. Version: 91212f.

12/15/2007 3:29:29 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 16 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Manual LiveUpdate successfully downloaded Virus Definitions.

12/15/2007 3:27:14 PM OfficeUpdateV3 Success Audit None 0 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source (

OfficeUpdateV3 ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the

necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages

from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event:

V3_2|520738|INSTALL|O12CONVSP1_12.0.6215.1000_ENG||2007-12-15

15:24:49|9|SUCCESS|||.

12/15/2007 3:27:13 PM MsiInstaller Information None 11728

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Compatibility Pack for the 2007

Office system -- Configuration completed successfully.

12/15/2007 3:27:13 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Compatibility Pack for the 2007

Office system - Update 'Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack

1 (SP1)' installed successfully.

12/15/2007 3:09:36 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET_2.0.50727 performance library because it

returned invalid data: 0x0

12/15/2007 3:09:36 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET performance library because it returned

invalid data: 0x0

12/15/2007 3:08:54 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 16 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Download of virus definition file from LiveUpdate server failed. 00000001

12/15/2007 3:08:45 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 14 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus services startup was successful.

12/15/2007 3:08:44 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 23 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus Realtime Protection Loaded.

12/15/2007 3:08:39 PM SceCli Information None 1704 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Security policy in the Group policy objects are applied successfully.

12/15/2007 3:08:31 PM WMDM PMSP Service Information None 105 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX The service was started.

12/15/2007 3:08:25 PM NMSSvc Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

started.

12/15/2007 3:08:23 PM Iap Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

started

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 11707

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 -- Installation completed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 - Update '.NET Framework PreXP' installed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 - Update '.NET Framework CLR' installed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 - Update '.NET Framework 1' installed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 - Update 'Dr. Watson' installed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 - Update '.NET Framework ASP .NET' installed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 - Update '.NET Framework 2' installed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 - Update '.NET Framework WinForms' installed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 - Update '.NET Framework CA' installed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:47 PM MsiInstaller Information None 1022

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Service Pack 1 - Update '.NET Framework CRT' installed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:52:45 PM LoadPerf Error None 3009 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Installing the performance counter strings for .NETFramework failed. The

Error code is DWORD 0 of the Record Data.

12/8/2007 10:52:45 PM LoadPerf Error None 3009 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Installing the performance counter strings for .NET CLR Data failed. The

Error code is DWORD 0 of the Record Data.

12/8/2007 10:52:44 PM LoadPerf Error None 3009 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Installing the performance counter strings for .NET CLR Networking

failed. The Error code is DWORD 0 of the Record Data.

12/8/2007 10:52:44 PM LoadPerf Error None 3009 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Installing the performance counter strings for .NET Data Provider for

SqlServer failed. The Error code is DWORD 0 of the Record Data.

12/8/2007 10:52:43 PM LoadPerf Error None 3009 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Installing the performance counter strings for .NET Data Provider for

Oracle failed. The Error code is DWORD 0 of the Record Data.

12/8/2007 10:51:42 PM MSDTC Information SVC 4097 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX MS DTC

has started.

12/8/2007 10:51:35 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET_2.0.50727 performance library because it

returned invalid data: 0x0

12/8/2007 10:51:33 PM WinMgmt Warning None 35 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX WMI ADAP

was unable to load the ASP.NET performance library because it returned

invalid data: 0x0

12/8/2007 10:51:13 PM ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Information Setup 1019 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX Finish registering ASP.NET (version 2.0.50727.0). Detailed

registration logs can be found in

C:\DOCUME~1\eagle\LOCALS~1\Temp\ASPNETSetup_00000.log

12/8/2007 10:51:13 PM ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Warning Setup 1020 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX Updates to the IIS metabase were aborted because IIS is

either not installed or is disabled on this machine. To configure

ASP.NET to run in IIS, please install or enable IIS and re-register

ASP.NET using aspnet_regiis.exe /i.

12/8/2007 10:51:12 PM LoadPerf Information None 1000 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Performance counters for the ASP.NET service were loaded successfully.

The Record Data contains the new index values assigned to this service.

12/8/2007 10:51:12 PM LoadPerf Information None 1001 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Performance counters for the ASP.NET service were removed successfully.

The Record Data contains the new values of the system Last Counter and

Last Help registry entries.

12/8/2007 10:51:12 PM LoadPerf Information None 1000 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Performance counters for the ASP.NET_2.0.50727 service were loaded

successfully. The Record Data contains the new index values assigned to

this service.

12/8/2007 10:51:10 PM LoadPerf Information None 1000 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Performance counters for the aspnet_state service were loaded

successfully. The Record Data contains the new index values assigned to

this service.

12/8/2007 10:51:10 PM LoadPerf Information None 1001 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Performance counters for the aspnet_state service were removed

successfully. The Record Data contains the new values of the system Last

Counter and Last Help registry entries.

12/8/2007 10:51:06 PM LoadPerf Information None 1001 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Performance counters for the ASP.NET_2.0.50727 service were removed

successfully. The Record Data contains the new values of the system Last

Counter and Last Help registry entries.

12/8/2007 10:51:05 PM ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0 Information Setup 1017 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX Start registering ASP.NET (version 2.0.50727.0) (internal

flag: 0x00000406)

12/8/2007 10:47:53 PM Perflib Error None 1015 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX "The

timeout waiting for the performance data collection function

""PerfProc"" in the ""C:\WINNT\system32\perfproc.dll"" Library to finish

has expired. There may be a problem with this extensible counter or the

service it is collecting data from or the system may have been very

busy when this call was attempted. "

12/8/2007 10:47:24 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 16 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Virus definitions are current.

12/8/2007 10:46:32 PM Perflib Error None 1015 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX "The

timeout waiting for the performance data collection function

""PerfProc"" in the ""C:\WINNT\system32\perfproc.dll"" Library to finish

has expired. There may be a problem with this extensible counter or the

service it is collecting data from or the system may have been very

busy when this call was attempted. "

12/8/2007 10:45:01 PM MsiInstaller Information None 11707

DELLOPTIPLEX\eagle DELLOPTIPLEX Product: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

SP1 -- Installation completed successfully.

12/8/2007 10:35:30 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 19 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

File C:\Documents and Settings\eagle\Local Settings\Temporary Internet

Files\Content.IE5\GD27W1AB\index[1].htm sent to SARC

12/8/2007 10:34:42 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 7 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

New virus definition file loaded. Version: 91205i.

12/8/2007 10:34:05 PM Norton AntiVirus Error None 5 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Virus Found!Virus name: Downloader in File: C:\Documents and

Settings\eagle\Local Settings\Temporary Internet

Files\Content.IE5\GD27W1AB\index[1].htm by: Manual scan. Action: Clean

failed : Leave Alone succeeded :

 

 

12/8/2007 10:33:06 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 16 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Manual LiveUpdate successfully downloaded Virus Definitions.

12/8/2007 9:31:00 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 14 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus services startup was successful.

12/8/2007 9:30:58 PM Norton AntiVirus Information None 23 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

 

Norton AntiVirus Realtime Protection Loaded.

12/8/2007 9:30:56 PM SceCli Information None 1704 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX

Security policy in the Group policy objects are applied successfully.

12/8/2007 9:30:47 PM NMSSvc Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

exiting.

12/8/2007 9:30:47 PM NMSSvc Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX NMS

initialization during service startup failed..

12/8/2007 9:30:43 PM WMDM PMSP Service Information None 105 N/A

DELLOPTIPLEX The service was started.

12/8/2007 9:30:38 PM NMSSvc Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

started.

12/8/2007 9:30:33 PM Iap Information None 0 N/A DELLOPTIPLEX Service

started

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[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: Booting up old Dell Optiplex GX260 "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" error

 

Yes, I concur.

 

 

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"Ant" wrote:

> Here's the exported application log from Event Viewer:

[Guest Ant]

Re: Booting up old Dell Optiplex GX260 "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"error

 

Re: Booting up old Dell Optiplex GX260 "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"error

 

Thanks. So far, the OS is working now. I guess we will never know what

really happened. :(

 

 

On 1/6/2008 6:10 PM PT, Dave Patrick typed:

> Yes, I concur.

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