Hey guys...

So here's what's happening...
I exchanged my old PC and kept the old hard drive, and the old PC used a Hard Drive controller of type PIIX3, and the new one uses PIIX4, I tried this but Windows 2K still keeps freaking crashing with the error code "Inaccessible boot device"... Can anybody help me?

Please? I don't what else to do I'm really stuck and I want my old PC to work still... I want it to boot that's all I care about... I've set up all the RAM and stuff like it was previously but this didn't help... What should I do??? Come on anybody?

Edit: Plus I've just checked the Drive with CHKDSK /F and it comes up with no signs of any problems... And this is a perfect-condition drive so there should really be no issue with it, from what I can see...

This PC is custom PC my friend gave me, like I said, The motherboard is an HP one, Supposing it should be compatible with Windows-9x and NT OSes... I don't know, I'm really confused.

Oh yes, I also remembered this Machine had a Windows 98 HDD in it, sorry, didn't see that when I first opened it up,( I remind you I just said I 'Exchanged' my old PC, I said nothing about buying a new computer. ) ..So I ran Command-Only when booting 98, Ok, so get this. The Win 98 Drive is Marked as 'C:\' , Windows 2k is marked as drive 'D:\'. Here's what happens.
I'm guessing either both drives are going/gone bad or there's something seriously wrong with either the MBR or something else.

Here's what I do. I typed in: D:\ Into The MS-Dos prompt and it tells me...
Wait, what? Ok, I just finished a 'Scandisk' now and now when I type D:\ it tells me invalid drive specification... What?
Though I try to Dir C:\, it says:
General Writing failure writing drive C
Abort, Retry, Fail?
What is going on here??

So,
Here's a photo I took of it, for experts who can try to solve the error code...

Quick question, why would your Windows 2000 machine give Blue screens from Windows XP?Quote from: BC_Programmer on November 22, 2010, 11:19:38 AM

Quick question, why would your Windows 2000 machine give Blue screens from Windows XP?

I exchanged my old PC and kept the old hard drive

The reason you get this error either specific driver used for hard drive access does not like the new motherboard...the fix is normally to select a generic IDE driver before moving the hard drive, or 2000 cannot find itself as the drive is now seen as D: ...having it as the only drive would normally fix this.

mike

Hey, sorry for long wait... I know this reply / thread is a bit old but please let me add this...

The Win98 drive had the bootloader on it, or atleast some of it. And upon attempting to boot 2000 by itself, I get the dreaded NT-error:

NT18 BOOT FAILURE

Ugh, Dual-Booting back in the days is not what it is today.

you mean:

NTLDR is missing.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart.

or something?

For the record, I never had any problems dual-booting my Thinkpad laptop (circa 1994) between PC-DOS 7 and OS/2 for a while. At least until I realized that OS/2 was gobbling up a lot of space and I hardly ever booted into it, at which point I deleted it

Lastly, regardless of what operating systems you're dealing with, when you go to create a dual-boot system, you should always have the disks for both.