Usually I would have searched for an answer to this but I got an error trying to get to the search menu. I have a removable hard drive that I store data on and switch from computer to computer. Well the problem is the two computers that I was switching between have both broken down. The power supply went out on one and the motherboard is failing on the other. I have a couple other computers in the network that are working but if I try to put the removable drive in either of them I get the Inaccessible boot device error and they wont boot up. The removable drive is jumpered to be a salve and the two computers it was working in were a Win2k machine and a Win98SE machine. The ones I am trying to use it in now are Win2k. The removable drive is a WD 40gig 7200rpm 2mb cache. Before I started using it as a removable drive I had it installed in one of the working machines and that one still has an identical drive in it as the master boot disk. Any suggestions on getting this to work would be helpful, if I need to post more system specs I can after I get home from work.
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Inaccessible boot device
- Thread starter m0e
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Okay, a little more info, system specs for the computer I want to get the hard drive working in:
PIII 866mhz
Gigabyte 6VX7B-4X
383mb SDRAM
American Megatrends 6.27.10 BIOS
Maxtor 90720D5 6.7gb (Fat32) (Primary Master)
Sony CRXO811 CD-RW
ATI Rage Fury Pro
Aureal AU8830 Vortex 2 3D
Linksys LNE100TXv5
Windows 2000 SP4
All the latest stable drivers and firmware available
I have tried changing the jumpers and cabling to put the removable hard drive in the secondary master, secondary slave, and cable select on both primary and secondary channels. The BIOS correctly recognizes the hard drive no matter what setting but I get the inaccessible boot disk error every time. If I boot to the CD-ROM it will not show up in DOS.
At this point the goal is to get it working in this computer. If I get one of the other computers running I would be able to transfer the info from it over the network but the machine with the bad Mobo will only run for about 7 minutes before I get a fatal system error. And I dont think I can use the power supply from it in the one that has the bad power supply because one machine is an AT board and the other is an ATX. So once again if anyone has some suggestions, ideas, something I havent mentioned here, go ahead post it.
PIII 866mhz
Gigabyte 6VX7B-4X
383mb SDRAM
American Megatrends 6.27.10 BIOS
Maxtor 90720D5 6.7gb (Fat32) (Primary Master)
Sony CRXO811 CD-RW
ATI Rage Fury Pro
Aureal AU8830 Vortex 2 3D
Linksys LNE100TXv5
Windows 2000 SP4
All the latest stable drivers and firmware available
I have tried changing the jumpers and cabling to put the removable hard drive in the secondary master, secondary slave, and cable select on both primary and secondary channels. The BIOS correctly recognizes the hard drive no matter what setting but I get the inaccessible boot disk error every time. If I boot to the CD-ROM it will not show up in DOS.
At this point the goal is to get it working in this computer. If I get one of the other computers running I would be able to transfer the info from it over the network but the machine with the bad Mobo will only run for about 7 minutes before I get a fatal system error. And I dont think I can use the power supply from it in the one that has the bad power supply because one machine is an AT board and the other is an ATX. So once again if anyone has some suggestions, ideas, something I havent mentioned here, go ahead post it.
sounds to me like a jumper issue. the only way i can think to figure out what is going on is to open up the pc and check the jumpers for all the ide devices and set the removable one accordingly.
oops. didn't read everything you said, sorry. but still sounds like jumpers.
oops. didn't read everything you said, sorry. but still sounds like jumpers.
The computer with the bad mobo is an AT and I need an ATX power supply for the other machine, the connecters are different. I am trying to avoid using parts from one of the working computers because neither of them has enough disk space left to transfer all the info I want to save. I would rather not buy a new power supply because the computer with the bad power supply is an old PIII with a 300mhz processor. Theres not much I do anymore that I can use it for so when the PS puked I just retired it. I looked for a used one but I live in a small Midwestern town and there just isnt much here. I will probably end up waiting until I find a used one but there are a couple of projects on the hard drive I would like to get back to and I have already been waiting about a month.
I have tried every jumper-cabling combo I think is available and even though the BIOS recognizes it I always get the error and it wont boot. I was wondering if there was some way to reset the master boot record on the removable drive without losing the info on it, maybe there is something in that stopping it from booting.
I have tried every jumper-cabling combo I think is available and even though the BIOS recognizes it I always get the error and it wont boot. I was wondering if there was some way to reset the master boot record on the removable drive without losing the info on it, maybe there is something in that stopping it from booting.