JV892 0 Posted June 20, 2000 I already have Win98 on my system. I want to install Win2k on a seperate partition. I have two HD'S in my system. From the command winnt32.exe I start to load win2k. I choose the option to select my own partition for win2k. It goes to the windows 2000 setup screen for about 10 seconds and then goes to a blue screen that says STOP ERROR:INACCESIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. What could be the problem? I've installed the latest drivers for my mobo. Share this post Link to post
FrogMaster 0 Posted June 20, 2000 Please give us as many details as possible about your setup. Drive letters, where the drives are attached to, where is your cd-rom, etc. Where is Win98 installed ... space available on drives ... Share this post Link to post
-WrathChild- 0 Posted June 21, 2000 I know after I format, DOS or Win98 DOS will LOCK the C: drive, I have to unlock it to be able to copy system setup files to it. To unlock it you boot from floppy or dos partition and type "LOCK C:" then say yes. This may be related to the problem you are having, doing this from a command prompt within Win98. I have installed Win2k mass times with all sorts of Partitions and OS's, am triple booting with 98se, Win2k and NT4. I setup Win98 first, then just run SETUP.exe from the root of the Win2k CD. Then it will prompt to install a new copy of Win2k, a couple of screens later you will have some options, click ADVANCED, then enable, Select system Partition during Setup, and Copy All Files to Disk. I always found this to be a full proof way to dual boot or triple boot. This way all files are on the HDD, then I dont have a problem with the first load up saying cant find CD because my drive letters changed, cause it found the NTFS partition...! Anyway thats my suggestion... You will then have a boot menu asking which one you would like to boot into, works like a charm... Share this post Link to post
