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| Thread ID: 83686 | 2007-10-09 21:56:00 | INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE - not good? | Morgenmuffel (187) | Press F1 |
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| 599718 | 2007-10-09 21:56:00 | Ok Relevant stuff Windows 2000 - fully updated and working fairly well until now System disk is NTFS Probably not relevant but I will mention it has been in dual boot configuration with various linux distros, have recently installed SUSE 10.3 as my linux but everthing was working fine till today This morning on booting into windows I got one of those digital signature not known dialogs that pop-up everynow and then when you install something, I cancelled it, it popped up again and so on until I clicked OK it was mentioning "volume" which I took to mean a hard drive , it then said I needed to reboot, I rebooted and got presented with that screen eg it boots to the windows splash screen with the progress bar at about halfway across then stop: 0x00000007b INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE with the usual goobbledygook I had a read of the microsoft site an it wasn't massively helpful, I don't want to have to do a re-install or kill the boot partition and lose access to my linux side (where I am now) So any help would be appreciated |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 599719 | 2007-10-09 22:39:00 | Is this one of the sites you went to ? (support.microsoft.com) What kind of hdd is it? IDE or SATA? Have you done a check with the hdd maker's utilties / hdd tools ? I would slave it to a working system, and scan for viruses. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 599720 | 2007-10-09 22:57:00 | Ide drive, the linux partition is on the same drive so i had assumed that would rule out a boot sector virus as that would effect grub (wouldn't it), i didn't even think of using the hdd makers utilities, The drive is a st380011a I'll have a read up on the seatools for dos utility and give it a try |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 599721 | 2007-10-09 23:46:00 | Nah.....just do a chkdsk on it. | pctek (84) | ||
| 599722 | 2007-10-10 00:14:00 | Pardon my complete ignorance but does that work on ntfs formatted disks | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 599723 | 2007-10-10 00:20:00 | Sure does. :cool: | wratterus (105) | ||
| 599724 | 2007-10-10 02:15:00 | Okey doke I am back I ran seatools on it and the harddrive came through fine I ran chkdisk /p and it detected an error so I am currently running chkdsk /r argh i am using the wifes l;aptop to type this Windows XP with 256 mb of ram (shared with the graphics card), **** it's painful |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 599725 | 2007-10-10 02:31:00 | I should also mention the error message is telling me to run chkdsk /f but that doesn't seem to be available when I run chkdsk /? I only see /p or /r as optional switches Also tried running fixboot but that made no difference chkdsk /p is not seeing any errors anymore so I assume it has been fixed Still getting the inaccessible boot device error though |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 599726 | 2007-10-10 02:46:00 | run chkdsk /r /r does what /f does and more |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 599727 | 2007-10-10 02:59:00 | run chkdsk /r /r does what /f does and more Already done still the same issue Gave up and tried the emergency repair on the 2K cd but even that didn't help bah |
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