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Windows 2000 "STOP" Error

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by sean-leonard

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I have a windows 2000 machine that i just replaced a motherboard in. During the boot up I get a "Inaccessible_Boot_Device" error about half way through the win2000 logo screen. I have run the win 2000 repair options with no help cant boot into safe mode or do a logged boot as it still gets this stop error. I have flashed the BIOS and on the old motherboard the system boots fine. The disk is partition with NTFS the only way i can find to get this up is to reinstall and i will lose all my profiles and folders

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by dmiles

You may have a drive gone bad,try booting with a WIN98 boot disk and at the command prompt type scan disk for any errors
The other option will be to use the system startup disk and select to do a repair install of the operating system,you may have a corrupt master boot record in this case you may have to reload the operating system

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