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- Jan 4, 2001
- Location
- Northern VA
Well, I never seem to have encountered this problem before, but then again, I'm not sure I've tried this that often using Win2k...
Anyway, my boss brought in his machine, which ended up having a dead ASUS A7V333...power surge. He decided he wanted to upgrade, so I picked him up an A7N8X deluxe.
Well everything goes fine, I install it, and boots right up.
Windows begins to load, but partway through the second startup screen, it bsod's saying it cannot locate the boot device. (HDD)
The odd part is, is that Windows see's the partition and install from the setup and repair program. I tried to repair it, having it check the boot and mbr, but no go.
The drive is a standard Maxtor D740XL, connected to the standard primary IDE. (So it's even still IDE-0)
The only main change is that this is now an nforce2 chipset, not a VIA cihpset.
Anyway, I can't boot off the drive, which is driving me nuts. I need to atleast boot to it to backup files.
I went ahead and told my boss I could just slave it in another system, back up whatever files he wants, and then wipe/reinstall. That's what I'd prefer to do...but he for some reason doesn't want me to.
He wants me to just install the mobo drivers and leave it as is, trusting it works.
He's probably just got files on there he doesn't want me to see...heheh.
Anyway...he's being kinda a pain about this, but more importantly, Windows is being a pain by not booting to the drive, just b/c of a new mobo.
What can I do????
Anyway, my boss brought in his machine, which ended up having a dead ASUS A7V333...power surge. He decided he wanted to upgrade, so I picked him up an A7N8X deluxe.
Well everything goes fine, I install it, and boots right up.
Windows begins to load, but partway through the second startup screen, it bsod's saying it cannot locate the boot device. (HDD)
The odd part is, is that Windows see's the partition and install from the setup and repair program. I tried to repair it, having it check the boot and mbr, but no go.
The drive is a standard Maxtor D740XL, connected to the standard primary IDE. (So it's even still IDE-0)
The only main change is that this is now an nforce2 chipset, not a VIA cihpset.
Anyway, I can't boot off the drive, which is driving me nuts. I need to atleast boot to it to backup files.
I went ahead and told my boss I could just slave it in another system, back up whatever files he wants, and then wipe/reinstall. That's what I'd prefer to do...but he for some reason doesn't want me to.
He wants me to just install the mobo drivers and leave it as is, trusting it works.
He's probably just got files on there he doesn't want me to see...heheh.
Anyway...he's being kinda a pain about this, but more importantly, Windows is being a pain by not booting to the drive, just b/c of a new mobo.
What can I do????