Hi, On a Toshiba Satellite 1555CDS laptop, I changed the Hard drive from a Simple Tech. HDD to a Fujitsu HDD from another laptop. Fujitsu HDD already has Windows 2000 and the configuration I need. On powering the laptop, I get to the Windows 2000 Professional start-up screen after which a BSOD with 'Inaccessible boot device' (STOP error 7B)appears. Re-starting the laptop a bunch of times did not help. I did find a couple of links on the web wrt STOP errors and 7B errors in particular and it seems that since the HD controller for the new drive is missing, the system is not able to boot up. How do I find the Hard Drive controller for the new drive and install it....please let me know the exact commands OR is the source of the problem different ? Regards Vishal

There might be more to it than just the hard drive controller. Different motherboards will even cause the stop screen. What you will have to do is run a "inplace" upgrade. I dont remember quite what the steps are, but you boot from the Windows 2000 CD. Choose to install, but do a repair install. I dont think its the first repair option... but as you continue it will give you a different repair option.

the copy of win2k you have on the new drive is looking for a controller in the old machine, the chances are slim that you would be able to remove the hdd controller from the old lt and make it work in the new. what you need to do is update win2k with the proper hdd controller driver, the manufacture could probably best help you resolve this issue but if you have the win2k cd you could also try running a repair install. the repair install should pick up the controller change. good luck!

If you are able to do it. Put the fujitsu hdd back in the laptop you took it out of then get the sysprep v1.1 utility from microsoft and put it in a folder called sysprep in the root of c:\ then run sysprep from the start/run command with the -pnp switch (eg: c:\sysprep\sysprep.exe -pnp) this will make it so the system runs mini setup the next time windows starts and searches for new plug and play devices. After running sysprep the computer automatically shuts down, take the hdd out and put it back in your other laptop then switch on and it should go through the plug and play detection. Sometimes you can also cure the stop error, by booting off a win95 or win98 boot disk and run fdisk with the /mbr switch (eg: fdisk /mbr) Hope this is of some help. Chris ICT Technician Heysham High School