Inaccessable_Boot_Decive

[Silentsc0rn]

I recently bought a new motherboard because my old one broke anyway now I have run into a new problem, it is a Nvida Nforce 400 chipset board, I plug everything in and it starts up fine I go into the bios and set the defaults, then when it trys to boot up windows 2000 pro from my hardrive it goes into the starting windows screen with the blue bar at the bottom then suddenly comes up with a blue screen that says some numbers then, inaccesable_boot_device and a explination that I should check my hardrive. Everything else seems to be working properly. Anyone know if there is anything I can do? or does this mean I have to buy a new hardrive? I wasn't sure where this topic fit any help would be great thanks.

 

[PELarson]

If your previous motherboard wasn't a close match, ie same chipset. Then it is highly likely you will have to reinstall W2K.

 

[scrotus]

yep, what pelarson said. One way around this, and it's a headache, put in your old mobo. Boot back to 2K, and remove anything that is 3rd party drivers. Sound, video, IDE controllers. For example, if you had a VIA chipset before, remove the VIA 4-in-1 drivers. Remove your ATI/Nvidia drivers etc.