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Inaccesable boot device
Name: Startrekfan821 Date: December 26, 2002 at 00:48:59 Pacific OS: Win98/2000 CPU/Ram: 150Mhz MMX / 112MB
Comment:
I removed one slave hd just a small 2GB one, no longer needed and now windows 2000 is complaining. It is SOOO picky!!! how do I fix this.
Name: Andy Supernova Date: December 26, 2002 at 03:36:09 Pacific
Reply:
I think you should go to [Start --> Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Storage Management] and erase the now missing HD from the list.
Andrés
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Response Number 2
Name: Bob Date: December 26, 2002 at 12:00:35 Pacific
Reply:
Ummm, Andy, how is he going to do your instructions if he can't get Windows to boot?
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Response Number 3
Name: Startrekfan821 Date: December 27, 2002 at 06:57:45 Pacific
Reply:
I finally got it to boot by useing a program called smart boot manager to boot the cd and run the recovery console. it starts up now. but now my ESS1688 audiodrive will start to play a sound but will only constantly repeat the first 1/2 sec of a sound. I can't get that fixed now. it is built into the bios and for now I've disabled it. till I can fix it. there was no hardware conflict either and my windows 98 multiboot doesn't do that. I have win 98 on a fat partition at the start of the drive to run old dos and win 3.1 stuff it is 2.1GB and the NTFS filles up the other 37.9GB. Win 98 doesn't screw up my sound card, so I don't know what is going on.
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