Rectifying “INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE” Error in Microsoft Windows 2000
in Computers / Software (submitted 2010-02-05)
Are you facing BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) error with a STOP error while booting your Windows 2000-based computer? Is your boot device inaccessible? Such situations occur due to damage to the Windows boot sector. After this behavior, your Windows system becomes unbootable and inaccessible. You can not access your hard drive partitions in such situations and come across partition loss situations. In order to retrieve lost Windows partitions in these cases, you need to opt for Partition Recovery solutions to get your valuable data back.
In certain scenarios, you might encounter an error, which is similar to the below one, on blue screen on Microsoft Windows 2000 computer:
“***STOP 0x0000007B (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE”
This error message render your hard drive partitions inaccessible, resulting partition loss. To gain access of lost Windows hard drive partitions, you need to identify the cause of this problem and perform Windows Partition Recovery by sorting it out.
Cause of the Inaccessible Boot Device Error:
This error may be caused by several problems. It indicates that either the I/O (Input/Output) system initialization failed or file system is not initialized. The I/O system initialization fails when driver for boot device initializes device, which Windows is attempting to boot from. The file system initialization fails because it didn’t recognize the data, which is stored on boot device.
The above error message can occur if the below conditions are true:
Microsoft Windows 2000 is installed on a SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) or unsupported hard drive.
You have installed a new disk controller or a SCSI adapter.
The hard drive is repartitioned with the Windows system partition.
Resolution:
Try out following things to fix this issue:
You have recently added a hardware, remove it.
Restore your system to Last Known Good Configuration
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