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More info?)
Thanks! I booted from the Win 2000 disk, went into repair console and ran
chkdsk /r and it is back up now.
Thanks!
"Quaestor" <no.spam@my.place> wrote in message
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> Brian wrote:
>
>>Help!
>>
>>We came into the office this morning and one of our Windows 2000 PC will
>>not boot. We get a blue screen error during boot that says:
>>
>>STOP 0X0000007B (0XFCDAD030, 0XC0000032, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)
>>INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
>>
>>We do not have a bootable virus checker disk and the machine will not boot
>>into safe mode.
>>
>>Any suggestions beyond a rebuild?
>>
>
> Boot from the install CD? Or got another HD you can put in and boot from
> (not that big a deal for your computer nerd)? Do a repair, scandisk,
> whatever from there.
>
> If not possible, obviously you have something on the internet. Get to
> http://www.bootdisk.com/ and get a boot disk image of some kind, anything
> that can let you look at the primary HD of that system. If you have NTFS
> disk format there it requires the w2k, NT, or XP boot disks to look at the
> disk, if FAT32 then almost any MS disk will do. You want to do a chkdsk
> or scandisk, see if you can repair the damage.
>
> By chance was that disk ever run with win98? Is it over 64 gigs? Win98
> would format those assuming a 64 gig limit, and slop over so that the part
> beyond 64 gig would overwrite the first part of the partition, and you
> could operate for years without knowing it, till one day the disk got full
> enough to use that area, and of course the first thing it will overwrite
> will be system files, boot information, etc. If this were the case, a
> wipe, fdisk, and repartition is a good idea, with NTFS if you have no
> multi-boot need.
>
> All this may not give you any result, but it's what I would try first.
> Then look at virus/trojan/worm problems, any kind of drivers screwed up,
> programs messed up, and if you don't find a cause, well it may be time to
> backup, fdisk, repartition, and reinstall. Save that nuclear option for
> last.
>
> --
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