Tom's Hardware > Forum > Windows 2000/NT > Windows 2000/NT General Discussion > Windows 2000 - Setup - Inaccessible Boot Device

Windows 2000 - Setup - Inaccessible Boot Device

Forum Windows 2000/NT : Windows 2000/NT General Discussion - Windows 2000 - Setup - Inaccessible Boot Device

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
mconway_03   05-21-2007 at 11:15:50 PM

This one has been driving me mad.

I have a Toshiba Satellite that i was in the porcess of installing Win2k on. It got all the way through formatting and when the PC rebooted, my drive would not spin up anymore (what a coincidence eh?)

So now I have a dead laptop since it has no OS on it yet. I connected an external dvd drive to the laptop via USB to start over, except when i try to enter setup, it gets all the way through loading drivers to "starting Windows 2000" then comes up with a Stop Error - Inaccesible Boot Device.

Ive tried this with Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 SP4 setup, as well as a disc for Advanced Server 2000.

Anyone know how to get around this?

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
podaman   07-10-2007 at 01:42:17 AM
- 0 +

I'm having the same problem.

Trying to installing Windows 2000 Server on:

DELL Optiplex GX260 (IDE) and
DELL Optiplex GX520 (SATA)

Same blue screen of death on both after Starting Windows 2000: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

I think we need an appropriate F6 setup disk for our Storage Controller because 2000 doesn't recognize it... but I can't find one that works for the life of me.

Reply to podaman
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Windows 2000/NT > Windows 2000/NT General Discussion > Windows 2000 - Setup - Inaccessible Boot Device
Go to:

There are 1407 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.442 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them