- Aug 6, 2015
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Hi.
A few weeks ago, I posted about my PC constantly having BSoDs all the time which has thankfully been resolved by updating BIOS and removing a PCI FireWire card.
Now I'm having a complicated issue, a very complicated one.
When I made that post a few weeks ago, I was running Windows 7 Professional and I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 Pro a week ago. Since the upgrade, I haven't been able to access my Windows XP partition so I used EasyBCD to edit the BCD on boot-up. Big mistake. Yes, both Windows partitions were showing up, upon boot-up but recently I bought a new hard drive. The hard drive I bought was a Seagate Pipeline HD 2 500GB hard drive, I already have 2 Seagate Barracuda hard drives in there, one 500GB one and one 40GB one.
If that paragraph wasn't complicated enough, I put the new hard drive in the computer but I ran out of SATA power and since the hard drive the Windows XP installation was on was IDE, I thought I may as well take the Molex power from that and use a Molex to SATA power adapter to plug the hard drive in. I didn't really use Windows XP much so it wasn't so big of a deal but when I turn my computer on, I get a screen like this:
Windows Boot Manager
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next."
3. Click "Repair your computer."
If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
Things I've tried:
Windows installation media to use bootrec parameters (the /ScanOs parameter in particular acted odd because it said there were no existing Windows installations)
Removing Windows XP from EasyBCD.
Removed all other storage media before rebooting
I can actually boot back into Windows 8.1 Pro if I plug the Windows XP hard drive back in.
Computer Specifications:
Motherboard: ASUS P5KPL SE
RAM: 4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 401MHz
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB
Other: Seagate ST340015ACE ATA Device (40GB for Windows XP)
Seagate ST3500418AS ATA Device (500GB for Windows 7)
(NEW) Seagate [UNKNOWN MODEL NUMBER] Device (500GB for extra storage)
EDIT: I just booted into the Windows 8.1 recovery media and it thinks that I'm running Windows 7.
EDIT 2: I reset the BCD and used the "Fix BCD" option using EasyBCD and I've made some form of progress. Instead of getting a black screen with text, I get the Windows 8.1 boot-up screen but an immediate BSoD. It goes so quickly, I can't see what the crash was caused by but I assume it was INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.
EDIT 3: The BSoD was NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM.
A few weeks ago, I posted about my PC constantly having BSoDs all the time which has thankfully been resolved by updating BIOS and removing a PCI FireWire card.
Now I'm having a complicated issue, a very complicated one.
When I made that post a few weeks ago, I was running Windows 7 Professional and I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 Pro a week ago. Since the upgrade, I haven't been able to access my Windows XP partition so I used EasyBCD to edit the BCD on boot-up. Big mistake. Yes, both Windows partitions were showing up, upon boot-up but recently I bought a new hard drive. The hard drive I bought was a Seagate Pipeline HD 2 500GB hard drive, I already have 2 Seagate Barracuda hard drives in there, one 500GB one and one 40GB one.
If that paragraph wasn't complicated enough, I put the new hard drive in the computer but I ran out of SATA power and since the hard drive the Windows XP installation was on was IDE, I thought I may as well take the Molex power from that and use a Molex to SATA power adapter to plug the hard drive in. I didn't really use Windows XP much so it wasn't so big of a deal but when I turn my computer on, I get a screen like this:
Windows Boot Manager
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next."
3. Click "Repair your computer."
If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
Things I've tried:
Windows installation media to use bootrec parameters (the /ScanOs parameter in particular acted odd because it said there were no existing Windows installations)
Removing Windows XP from EasyBCD.
Removed all other storage media before rebooting
I can actually boot back into Windows 8.1 Pro if I plug the Windows XP hard drive back in.
Computer Specifications:
Motherboard: ASUS P5KPL SE
RAM: 4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 401MHz
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB
Other: Seagate ST340015ACE ATA Device (40GB for Windows XP)
Seagate ST3500418AS ATA Device (500GB for Windows 7)
(NEW) Seagate [UNKNOWN MODEL NUMBER] Device (500GB for extra storage)
EDIT: I just booted into the Windows 8.1 recovery media and it thinks that I'm running Windows 7.
EDIT 2: I reset the BCD and used the "Fix BCD" option using EasyBCD and I've made some form of progress. Instead of getting a black screen with text, I get the Windows 8.1 boot-up screen but an immediate BSoD. It goes so quickly, I can't see what the crash was caused by but I assume it was INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.
EDIT 3: The BSoD was NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM.
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