kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Echy <echy2007@yahoo.com.au> wrote

>>> I have encountered an "Inaccessible Boot Device" stop error
>>> 0x0000007B on my desktop computer. The computer (in normal
>>> & safe mode) will not progress past the blue stop screen.

>>> It is an Acer PIII computer with Windows 2000 and was
>>> running fine with no warning signs of this impending problem.

> Examine the motherboard for popped capacitors. A very
> instable system can exhibit seemingly unrelated problems.

> Also check the drive cables.

That wont produce that particular error.

>>> I have current data back ups thankfully.I run up-to-date anti virus
>>> software and Ad-Aware, Spybot, CCleaner, SpywareBlaster.

> Is the drive NTFS or FAT32?
> You might try pulling up a directory to see if the drive contents are
> shown. Might also run the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics on it.

Cant be the hard drive, he gets the same result with a different drive.

> How'd you run those other windows softwares
> if the system isn't booting to windows?

He presumably means that those were used before he saw the stop error.

>>> I have not installed anything new in the way of hardware or
>>> software. I have checked that all cables are tightly connected &
>>> have used a boot floppy disk to run chkdsk & scandisk. When I run
>>> scandisk it says all is OK but it cannot be checking anything I
>>> don't think as it finishes in two seconds. Same for Chkdsk.

> You might start up a repair install and see whether it shows
> an existing installation... and maybe even let it try to repair it.

Pity that he gets the same stop error with a different drive.

>>> I also managed to borrow a working hard disk with an operating
>>> system etc on it, disconnected my drive and connected this one.
>>> I get exactly the same error message ??

> Since you have a second drive, you might try
> temporarily installing Win2k to it, booting it then.

He just said that it has that already.

> Or, boot from the windows CD or a bootable floppy and
> see what the system can see sitting at DOS prompt or
> whatever interface you're left at after booting a CD.

Wont help when he gets the same problem with two different drives.

>> That suggests something has died with the hard drive controller.

> Nope,

Yep.

> with the second drive it could suggest what we already knew,
> you can't migrate an existing WinNT/2k/xp installation to another
> dissimilar system (different OS drive controller in this case).

You dont get a "Inaccessible Boot Device"
stop error 0x0000007B if that is the problem.

> It could be a bad cable

Nope, that doesnt produce that error either.

> or drive controller, but those are
> less typical than what I wrote above.

Wrong again.

>>> Wondering if there a definitive help source or
>>> if anyone can offer any thoughts on the problem.

>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...s/pgsappb.mspx