re: Failed (non-boot) Hard drive halts windows bootup!?
Friday, September 30, 2005 at 5:35 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by nick
(4 messages posted)
here's an update to what i've been trying, i put both drives in the old PC to try
that, same thing the 2nd drive won't spin up, dead as a doornail....in the meantime
i re-installed another version of win2k on another drive and can boot the new pc
off of that one, i put the /sos flag on that bootup and exactly where the other one
crashes the new one says 'checking drive c: for errors, drive d: for errors' etc.
so the drive that's failing is failing at the point where it goes thru the drives
in the system. the error message from the bad boot says 'inacessible boot device'
and the address is 0x0000007B. i read somewhere that the system configuration hive
is volatile and re-created every time at bootup, why does it try to find an inaccessible
boot device then?? can anybody point me to a hive and key where i could manually
go in and remove the pointer to the missing drive??
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