Inaccessible_Boot_Device woes

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I know this is not an NT support group, but I know that the people here
have seen every conceivable NT snafu, so I’m hoping someone can help.

I have been using NT 4.0 (SP6) on a Dell Inspiron 7500 for months with
no problems. The other day out of the blue I got an error at boot up.

At first I thought I trashed my NT install so I removed NT and went to
reinstall it. But the install process gets the same error now!

I read the various KB articles, but none seems to apply here since I am
installing via CD not floppy.

Here are the gory details…

Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF7813BD4, 0x0C0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
Inaccessible_Boot_device.
CPUID:Genuine Intel Irq:0 Server:0xf0000565

It lists a number of drivers, the first half-dozen being: hal.dll,
spddlang.sys, scsiport.sys, dellsda.sys, ncr53c9x.sys, and oliscsi.sys.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Thanks.

Neil

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If you want to re-install ( since Ur original installation is out to
lunch),
you have to use the ( remember ) 3 floppies. If you dont happen to
have it, U can create from the CD, but then you need a machine
with CD drive accessible.

After you create the floppies, you can try, if that does not work
then *** guess what, you have to do a LOW-LEVEL FORMAT***

I’ve been to this situation but not on Dell Ins…, home grown machine.

Actually, the boot sector is gone, and your system does not have
the capability to boot from CD!!!

If you want to know the problem, then you will have to do
kernel debugging on it.

prokash

Neil Weicher wrote:

I know this is not an NT support group, but I know that the people here
have seen every conceivable NT snafu, so I’m hoping someone can help.

I have been using NT 4.0 (SP6) on a Dell Inspiron 7500 for months with
no problems. The other day out of the blue I got an error at boot up.

At first I thought I trashed my NT install so I removed NT and went to
reinstall it. But the install process gets the same error now!

I read the various KB articles, but none seems to apply here since I am
installing via CD not floppy.

Here are the gory details…

Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF7813BD4, 0x0C0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
Inaccessible_Boot_device.
CPUID:Genuine Intel Irq:0 Server:0xf0000565

It lists a number of drivers, the first half-dozen being: hal.dll,
spddlang.sys, scsiport.sys, dellsda.sys, ncr53c9x.sys, and oliscsi.sys.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Thanks.

Neil

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Thanks for your reply. I believe that the boot sector is not the problem
because the machine appears to boot fine from CD. In addition, the system
boots up fine into System Commander, which I don’t think it would if the boot
sector was trashed.

However, I will try your idea of booting from floppies.

Neil

Subject: > From: Prokash Sinha
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:32:56 -0800
> X-Message-Number: 14
>
> If you want to re-install ( since Ur original installation is out to
> lunch),
> you have to use the ( remember ) 3 floppies. If you dont happen to
> have it, U can create from the CD, but then you need a machine
> with CD drive accessible.
>
> After you create the floppies, you can try, if that does not work
> then guess what, you have to do a LOW-LEVEL FORMAT
>
> I’ve been to this situation but not on Dell Ins…, home grown machine.
>
> Actually, the boot sector is gone, and your system does not have
> the capability to boot from CD!!!
>
> If you want to know the problem, then you will have to do
> kernel debugging on it.
>

4

What’s your disk size? On my drive of 25Gb NT failed to install with the same error. It seems the matter is in the drive size. NT cannot start from partitions that lay over 8Gb boundary. To overcome this problem I installed NT on a smaller drive then copied the NT’s partition to the larger drive (using Paragon Partition Manager).

Regards,
Max

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???: 16 ??? 2000 ?. 16:53
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???: Prokash Sinha
???: [ntfsd] Re: Inaccessible_Boot_Device woes

Thanks for your reply. I believe that the boot sector is not the problem
because the machine appears to boot fine from CD. In addition, the system
boots up fine into System Commander, which I don’t think it would if the boot
sector was trashed.

However, I will try your idea of booting from floppies.

Neil

Subject: > From: Prokash Sinha
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:32:56 -0800
> X-Message-Number: 14
>
> If you want to re-install ( since Ur original installation is out to
> lunch),
> you have to use the ( remember ) 3 floppies. If you dont happen to
> have it, U can create from the CD, but then you need a machine
> with CD drive accessible.
>
> After you create the floppies, you can try, if that does not work
> then guess what, you have to do a LOW-LEVEL FORMAT
>
> I’ve been to this situation but not on Dell Ins…, home grown machine.
>
> Actually, the boot sector is gone, and your system does not have
> the capability to boot from CD!!!
>
> If you want to know the problem, then you will have to do
> kernel debugging on it.
>

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>smaller drive then copied the NT’s partition to the larger drive (using

Paragon Partition Manager).

Creating an FtDisk mirror, then breaking it, detaching the old disk and
extending the volume on the new disk to occupy all the disk space is also a
way. Called “plexing” by somebody.

Max