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by kcav

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My system worked fine untile I attached two elderly peripherals. Then for some reason it hung-up, and I had to reboot. After rebooting I experienced lengthy load times and some file corruption errors. I thought, no big deal I'll use the F8 facility to log the details of my boot routine, identify the corrupt files, and replace them with new copies. Foolish me. Now when I boot I get a blue screen that says "Inaccessible device"!

I have an ERD, an Installation CD, and a tape backup. I alsohave Windows 2000 on four floppy disks. All attempts to use these items end in a Blue screen.

I have a bootable diagnostic diskobtained from my drive manufacturer. When I boot from it correctly sees my storage devices, and reports that my drives are mechanically sound. I also have bootable DOS floppy disk. When I boot from it and run FDISK no information is displayed.

I have had blue screens before and the way I over came the problem was to remove everything but the video card. Then reinstall the operating system, and put each PCI card back-in and and rebooted each time until it was all back together. There must be an easier way! What should I do to get my system running again?

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by Former member

Hi there,

It seems like WIN2K is still trying to access the now removed devices. Go to Device Manager and see if the devices are still listed. If they are, then remove them. But if you can't get into WIN2K, then it's a different problem altogether.

The reason that no info is displayed in FDISK is probable because your hard drive is formatted in the NTFS format. It seems like there's no option but to bite the bullet and reinstall... Sometimes, it's the only way.

by kcav

Hi Ruben,

Thank you for replying to my post. I agree that FDISK can not read NTFS formatted partitions. I have downloaded a program called NTFSDOS PRO from Winternals web site that is suppsoe to read NTFS from DOS. Please stay with me while I work on this problem because it is driving me nuts.

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