voodooutt

Hello, I recently re-installed windows, not a fresh, but a "repair". So, now my computer is rebooting right after the first splash screen when windows first boots up. I see the splash screen for a quick flicker, then computer promptly reboots. Can not even get into safe mode. To eliminate hardware problems I slapped another Hard Drive in there, installed Win XP just fine, boots properly, all is fine, changed power supply too. This computer is just a plain old 1800 xp - nothing special, just a computer to web surf. I have not changed any hardware. I have tried booting the xp disk and "repairing" (not the repair console) the current xp pro installation a couple more times and that does not help. I also have tried doing a chkdsk in the actual repair console, and no errors are found. It is a WD hard drive, and went through thier tools and found no errors. Could there be a possible corrupt file when re-installing/repairing that the automated installer is missing? I do know the recovery console and have replaced files, but I have no clue where to start - in this case does it even sound like a corrupt driver or .dll ? thanks.

hey there, they are the IDE variety. -ive tried alot of messing around and ended up having to reformat and start fresh. but, before I did that I did get all the info i needed by using the new install on the other drive and making a "backup" of the old drive that was not booting up (I couldent get into her dang folder because of permissions: acess denied). Now, after the backup was done, I just restored all that info (about 8 gigs worth) into a new folder on the new drive, and voila, all the access limitations were gone. It took maybe about 2 hrs for the whole process.

its the 'ol 0x0000007B error ive read up on it, but i dont see the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE - just the error code then the 4 perameters afterwards. so, I have read alot on it, but none really fits my situation