This is the Office machine. I used to have 2 physical drives partitioned into C D E and a second physical drive F Now I have an...
Mike......Some semblance of victory. I tried so many times to folow Laage's directions to install & then repair, but with a lot of pain, so I bit...
Hi Mike....sry for long absence....had commitment last nite. Went back & re-read the post withthe boot diskette ref. I missed it with all the...
It's now looking for the drivers for the SIS PCI fast Ethernat adapters....& I can't find the CD for the MOBO. I'll keep looking on the web,...
I read in all the requested CAT files & one DLL file & then got the browse option on the file load windo. Cancel led me to the install process...
renaming the files has allowed them to be processed/read formthe diskette & it goes on to ask for the next files. I'll try to abort the...
OOPPS wrong sytem this is the Office machine. No internal zip, but did unplug the IOMEGA & printer parallel from back & the USB that connects to...
I can only choose OK or cancel & get a fatal error. I'll try looking at the CAT files to see if they'll fit on a diskette.
MOBO is a PCDDR266 M830 series......going to look for the IDE controller type now. Seems to be a SIS PCI IDA controller I now remember...
Sorry to seem dumb...but I've tried all letters form A thru K and none work I would not have expected C D or E to work as they are the 3...
Interesting that the pull down window does have c:\.....entries & D & G & H the 2 CD's prior names
well Good idea BUT............... ?:\I386 and OK gives NO action? and I did change the CD to the CDRW, just in case my guess about drive...
I now HAVE a Win2KPro upgrade CD form a neightbor that has booted. I used the INSTALL option & then (as shown on the XP link with all the screen...
New info & thanks for isolating the problem to the IDE controller & it's device driver. Not sure the disk controller. I will look for...
Mike......on the office machine wiht the inaccesible boot device I tried to boot from diskette. No good diskette available. No Win2K...
I do NOT have a bootable W2KPro CD I Do have a bootable WinME CD The Win2k boot diskettes have an error on diskette 1 The Ultimate...
Mike now to the office machine. It boots past the W2K pro white screen & immediately gives a blue creen BSOD with Inaccesible-Boot-device. The...
We thought the new - replacement HD was not booting Bcause it was not pinned as master. Pinned it as master & still boot froze. So we have...
Not sure when you say Remove any disks that are in either. Try the F8 again and see if you have aselection for VGA Mode try this! With...
With monitor, mouse & keyboard it still won't go past the full blue progressbar. Not that this should make a difference, as it DID boot this...
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