I've been using a fresh instal of Windows 2000 on my newly built computer for a couple weeks and I've just recently set up a wireless network. So today I decided to update Windows 2000 with service pack 4 and installed it. I restarted and to my horror I got a blue screen of death telling me "Inaccessible Boot Device". I restarted several times and tried changing my BIOS settings (I have an SATA drive so I thought that might be a problem), but nothing worked. Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong?
System Specs:
AMD 2200+ XP
DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra
36.7 GB Western Digital Raptor (SATA)
80 GB Maxtor IDE (set to slave)
Liteon DVD/CD-RW
Mitsumi CD-RW
Inaccessible Boot Device...
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1. Yes
2. Yes
The drive itself is completely fine, it's connected properly and other operating systems (like Win98, Mandrake and Win2k before SP4) work fine.
3. I can select safe mode but I still get the bsod, about the only thing I could do was use the console
I've now formatted and reinstalled Win2k, it seemed to be less of a hassle. Still, I would like to find out what went wrong. I've got a similar error before from trying to instal XP...
2. Yes
The drive itself is completely fine, it's connected properly and other operating systems (like Win98, Mandrake and Win2k before SP4) work fine.
3. I can select safe mode but I still get the bsod, about the only thing I could do was use the console
I've now formatted and reinstalled Win2k, it seemed to be less of a hassle. Still, I would like to find out what went wrong. I've got a similar error before from trying to instal XP...
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Did you check MSDN for issues with SATA controllers?
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Did you update drivers before installing SP4?
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Sorry for the thread necromancy but I finally came across a solution! It turns out that the DFI motherboard's SATA controller gets all fucked up if you have another read/write device on the primary IDE channel. So all I had to do was disconnect my secondary hard drive and I was able to install Windows XP without the BSOD. Now I'm not sure what this means if I want a secondary hard drive, perhaps I'll be able to attach it to the RAID IDE connections on my mobo. Stupid DFI, if they had only announced this bug on their website.