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Phisherman
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I have an old Sony PC with a Promise hard drive controller, Maxtor
hard drive and another (old) hard drive. The promise drivers show
on-screen, but halfway through the Win 2000 Pro boot up process the
machine stops (blue screen of death) with
Inaccessible boot device. Use Chkdsk /f ...
I attempted to boot from a floppy or (Win 2000) CD, but that results
in a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. I
looked in the BIOS to make the boot order: removable devices, then
CD, then hard drive. The floppy I have contains the following hidden
files:
boot.ini
ntdetect.com
ntltr
I can access the BIOS. It shows the correct time and hardware
settings so I don't think the MoBo battery cell is bad. The primary
floppy is set to "Enable." One one floppy is in the PC.
I tried removing the Promise card, and attaching the hard drive
(jumper set to Master) directly to the MoBo Pri IDE connector.
I have another (working) Windows 2000 Pro PC to help with
troubleshooting.
How can I get this PC to boot from a floppy? What other things should
I test/suspect? Please help!
hard drive and another (old) hard drive. The promise drivers show
on-screen, but halfway through the Win 2000 Pro boot up process the
machine stops (blue screen of death) with
Inaccessible boot device. Use Chkdsk /f ...
I attempted to boot from a floppy or (Win 2000) CD, but that results
in a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. I
looked in the BIOS to make the boot order: removable devices, then
CD, then hard drive. The floppy I have contains the following hidden
files:
boot.ini
ntdetect.com
ntltr
I can access the BIOS. It shows the correct time and hardware
settings so I don't think the MoBo battery cell is bad. The primary
floppy is set to "Enable." One one floppy is in the PC.
I tried removing the Promise card, and attaching the hard drive
(jumper set to Master) directly to the MoBo Pri IDE connector.
I have another (working) Windows 2000 Pro PC to help with
troubleshooting.
How can I get this PC to boot from a floppy? What other things should
I test/suspect? Please help!