Moving Win2K hard drive 2 new motherboard

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Hi

I have two machines, on my old machine I had installed win
2000 Pro on a 80Gb hard drive.I have now built a new
machine with a new motherboard, RAM, DVD-Combo etc. etc.
and moved the hard drive from the old machine to the new.
Everything went fine until Windows 2000 startup screen
appears; it starts loading Win 2000 and then I get blue
screen Stop Error:INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.My BIOS
recognises te disc so no problems there. I have copied
about 40Gb worth of files onto this disc on several
logical partitions and have the Win 2000 installation
seperately on the C: drive partition.Is there any way I
can salvage the files and reinstall Windows or are there
any other way of getting rid of this error.Please help!
 
Well...If I had only looked down on the page I would have
found some answers...However I've one comment to add.I
tried reinstalling Win2K over the current installation,
but it refuses to boot from CD...
 
Hi

I have two machines, on my old machine I had installed win
2000 Pro on a 80Gb hard drive.I have now built a new
machine with a new motherboard, RAM, DVD-Combo etc. etc.
and moved the hard drive from the old machine to the new.
Everything went fine until Windows 2000 startup screen
appears; it starts loading Win 2000 and then I get blue
screen Stop Error:INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.My BIOS
recognises te disc so no problems there. I have copied
about 40Gb worth of files onto this disc on several
logical partitions and have the Win 2000 installation
seperately on the C: drive partition.Is there any way I
can salvage the files and reinstall Windows or are there
any other way of getting rid of this error.Please help!
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The following post from Bruce Chambers will help.
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From: "Bruce Chambers" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Replaced Motherboard
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:48:37 -0600

Greetings --

How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q249694

HTH&GL,

Bruce Chambers
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Always store beer in a dark place. -- RAH


From: "Bruce Chambers" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: changing motherboards and CPU's
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:53:20 -0700

Greetings --

Unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the old one
(same chipset, IDE controllers, etc), you'll most likely need to
perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very
least (and don't forget to reinstall any service packs and subsequent
hot fixes):

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175


Bruce Chambers
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
 
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