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A Win 2k boot/install problem
I have a PIII 996 with two disk drives, one Maxtor 20G as the primary (C) and one 120 gig Western Digital as the secondary (D). Both are normal ATA devices. They are on a Cable Select cable and both have cable select as the jumper setting.
Until the other day I had an installation of Windows ME on the primary and a Windows 2000 installation on the C drive.
I inadvertantly deleted all the system files on the C drive not realizing that they were not on the D drive and wouldn't work even if they were. The Computer obviously wouldn't boot. Got the NTLDR missing error. Found a helpful message regarding that subject on this board and tried to recover using that.
I tried recovery options (did not have emergency disks and could not fix the system files tho) outlined, didn't work, and finally tried to reinstall Win 2K. Was not successfull. The installer has copied the files to the HD and restarted, but once the installer appears to have completely loaded, I get the following error message on a blue screen:
0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
I have managed to reinstall WinMe on the C drive (after formatting, the C drive was essentially cleared) and it can access the drives fine. I've tried installing Win2k on both the C and D drives. I've run scandisks on WinMe.
The WINNT folder from my old installation is still intact on the D drive. (though I renamed it to prevent overwriting with a new installation)
I'm at a loss as to what could be wrong. I've accessed information about the blue screen error and all/most of the causes seem to be related to switched motherboards and the like which does not apply in this situation.
I'm hoping it's not a hardware issue, and I'm wondering what I might try next.
Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.
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