Help Windows 2000 boot error

[magwel]

Hi All,

Just upgraded my brother's computer and set up it up to run Windows 2000pro. After formating the hard drive and loading the OS, I naturally updated windows with the lastest Service pack. Everything seems to be working fine but after about a couple of hours of use I received the following error:

***STOP:0x0000007B (0x8187B7B0, 0xC0000185, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

Does anyone have any idea how I can remediate this problem.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Dj-Icer]

It must've be the booting problem

Sorry, i dont use Win 2000 though but I think theres something with the partition HDD. Or the HDD surface clusters

Can you even access to Windows? If you can, have it fixed by defragment at the system tool. You could possibly reinstall your windows.

I once face that kind of problem before with my XP. It were all settled out after fixing. I use norton system doctor and it worked well.

[VERT]

Win2K stop errors usually refer to hardware not functioning correctly, so this could well be your Harddrive as mentioned above

[Dj-Icer]

Yeah, but so far I dont have any hard problems after using XP for 3 years.

Magwel, I usually had those problem when I was using Win 98. I receive that kind of message too. There are maybe some ways to fixing it, if there are experts who can do it.
As far as I know, there are not solution at all to put up the HDD correctly. Try format the HDD again and I think you'll be missing some error clusters on the disk inside. So you can only use the available clusters left over.
Buying a new one is an option but anyways, I'm sure there are important files in your HDD But why not, keep it with you.

[thePh@r@oh]

something similar happened to me once i just got a new IDE ribbon and it worked fine