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Windows 2000 Server INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE STOP 0x0000007B; please help!

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RavinDJ

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Windows 2000 Server INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE STOP 0x0000007B; please help!

It's in a Dell server and there are two (2) 34GB SCSI drives...

It happened over the weekend when I was out of the house... how do I fix this??? I already put in 4 hours into this..

I looked at all of Microsoft's HELP AND SUPPORT sites:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822052

And countless others...

Any recommendations on what steps to take?
 
The drives tested fine in another machine?
Sounds like one or both drives failed....
 
I tried doing a REPAIR using a Windows XP Pro SP2 disk, but it wouldn't find the disks (it said that there's no disk to do a REPAIR on).

Then I booted into SBS 2003 and went into REPAIR. It asked me for admin password; I typed it in 3 times and it wouldn't go through. I don't know why - it's hte CORRECT password (and yes, I was spelling it correctly, despite the fact that sometimes I write "hte" or "teh" instead of "the").

In any case, the Dell server restarted and I forgot to hit the "any" key (it's a Simpsons reference) when booting from the CD - so, it went into Windows 2000 Server and I expected another BSOD with the IBD error. But, to my amazement, it actually went into Windows. I logged in as admin and everything seemed fine. WTF?!?!?!? I didn't do anything... and yet, I wasted 4 hours on this issue. I even broke apart the RAID container by unplugging one of the drives (only after reading online that it's a bad thing to do, did I realize that I did something stupid; since they're small drives, it only took about 20-30 minutes to rebuild them).

In any case - what could've happened??? The Windows 2000 Server did perform a CHKDSK after I rebooted from the failed SBS 2003 intervention. Hmmm - why wouldn't CHKDSK load earlier?

Ahhh... who cares. It works!

But, how do I add a server to the network as a backup Domain Controller (DC)? Should I go to the Operating Systems forum?

Thanks guys!!!

BTW... my offer still stands to pay some $$$ to someone who can locally and/or remotely teach me about RAID, SCSI, SAS, etc., etc., etc. [see a few posts down by RavinDJ]
 
I's still run a chkdsk and some hard drive diagnostics. As well as a virus scan. a 7B stop error is a pretty major error and usually a hard drive failure or virus.
 
Did you flip any options in BIOS kicking drives from Legacy IDE mode to AHCI?

Vista INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE for me is symptomatic when someone turns on AHCI after installing Vista and forgetting to enable msahci.
 
OmegaAvenger said:
I's still run a chkdsk and some hard drive diagnostics. As well as a virus scan. a 7B stop error is a pretty major error and usually a hard drive failure or virus.
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Yeah, it was VERY serious :eek:

I was flipping out... the CHKDSK ran by itself. I didn't set it up or anything... Either way, it's gone.

BUT - how do I protect against viruses on the drives and in the MBR?

It's a Dell server running Win2k Server. Any A/V solutions you guys recommend?

-Lukas
 
Maybe the 'repair' you started on the 2003 rebuilt the bootloader that 2000 needed....
I prefer Eset Nod32 for my business clients...

Since you mentioned having SBS2003, you can add the SBS2003 machine onto the network, then promote it, then you could demote the 2000 server and rebuild it, or leave it as is.
There are a bunch of how to's on Technet (and Google)
 
dbwillis said:
Maybe the 'repair' you started on the 2003 rebuilt the bootloader that 2000 needed....
I prefer Eset Nod32 for my business clients...

Since you mentioned having SBS2003, you can add the SBS2003 machine onto the network, then promote it, then you could demote the 2000 server and rebuild it, or leave it as is.
There are a bunch of how to's on Technet (and Google)
Click to expand...

Thanks, guys!!

Yeah, will do - need to update that P.O.S. A.S.A.P.

Thanks!!!
 
sorry for interrupting

i haing this problem with my server too
dell server 770N

just dont know why its happing with my server? :mad:

thanks in adavce

plz help!!!!!
 
Orddie said:
this has already been answered
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thanks for reply :)

actually I've tried this chkdsk thing with my windows xp cd
and it gets complete without any problem but the problem still didn't solve.
so, i search about it alot
and find the article about this 0x0000007b error as you can see.

movax said:
Did you flip any options in BIOS kicking drives from Legacy IDE mode to AHCI?

Vista INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE for me is symptomatic when someone turns on AHCI after installing Vista and forgetting to enable msahci.
Click to expand...

and you what
this guy named "movax" is right about flipping sata options in BIOS

but thanks for your help
:p my files is saved now
thanks again!!!!
 
and there is one question more
can changing this setting in bios is safe?
did i need to re-change it after some time or what?
 
The 0x0000007B errors indicate an inability to access the boot drive.
It can be drive or controller failures, or RAID controller driver problems.

You can often boot up the computer or server with a suitable boot disk
that has the proper disk controller drivers to see the disks.

I used to build my own UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD)
(Many times had to manually add the required disk controller drivers to the build)

http://www.ubcd4win.org/

But have since found Gandalf's PE boot disk and have been using that lately.
(Seems to have a lot of drivers already included)

http://windowsmatters.com/2015/04/03/windows-8-1-x64-u1-pe-with-updateable-usb-portable-apps/

Either way... whatever works to get access to the drives to repair the problem
or at least recover the data from them to start over.

I have used boot disks like these to recover data from old crashed servers that
other techs deemed as unrecoverable. Most of the time the problem was using
boot disks that did not have the correct RAID controller drivers.
 
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