BSOD INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE Help
I'm sure I know the answer, but just to validate myself... I have a Compaq Evo N160 laptop w/ W2k. I am now getting a BSOD halfway through the W2k splash screen, stating:
STOP: 0x0000007B (0x8187C3F0,0xC000009C,0x0
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
It's either a boot sector virus, or a bad hard drive, right? I can't boot into safe mode, or command prompt. I cant boot from the CD, it doesn't even sound like the drive is running. It is listed in BIOS.
Any other suggestions? Before this started, I was having some issues with reading the CD drive, and once when it wouldn't recognize a disk in the drive, I rebooted and started getting the BSOD.
What are my options? I don't have a seperate floppy for this computer, and even if I buy a new HDD, how will I install the OS if the CD drive won't run?
STOP: 0x0000007B (0x8187C3F0,0xC000009C,0x0
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
It's either a boot sector virus, or a bad hard drive, right? I can't boot into safe mode, or command prompt. I cant boot from the CD, it doesn't even sound like the drive is running. It is listed in BIOS.
Any other suggestions? Before this started, I was having some issues with reading the CD drive, and once when it wouldn't recognize a disk in the drive, I rebooted and started getting the BSOD.
What are my options? I don't have a seperate floppy for this computer, and even if I buy a new HDD, how will I install the OS if the CD drive won't run?
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I bought a 3.5 enclosure and a 2.5 IDE adapter and tried running the drive on my computer. The machine didn't recognize it. When I tried booting from the 2.5 drive directly on my computer I got a NTLD (?) missing error (I know what it means, just can't remember the exact acryonym).
I'm surrendering that the drive is bad. There wasn't any valuable info on it anyway, so I'll be getting a new drive.
Thanks for the suggetsions. I never thoguth of trying an adapter.
I'm surrendering that the drive is bad. There wasn't any valuable info on it anyway, so I'll be getting a new drive.
Thanks for the suggetsions. I never thoguth of trying an adapter.
Remove the harddrive, see if you can boot from CDROM. If so, the harddrive was bad.
Remove the CDROM, see if you can boot from harddrive. If so, the CDROM was causing problems on the IDE bus.
Defective memory may also be the cause.