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This is easily the weirdest error I've ever seen. I'd really appreciate any
help with this; I have been searching the 'net and these groups for some time
looking for anything similar. I'm hoping that if a solution is found someone
else's search will be made easier. Forgive me if this is too verbose; I like
to include as much detail as possible to minimize the amount of replying that
is needed .
First, let's get the easy stuff out of the way. No, I'm not running any
SCSI setup or unique controllers; this is straight up IDE with a master disk
on the first chain. There is a NTFS bootable partition taking up most of the
space on the drive; the rest is unused.
I was booting Windows 2000 Professional SP4 normally; this has been a
relatively long duration install. I noticed that the system had decided to
run chkdsk, so I let it run. It replaces a couple badly linked temporary
files, then it checks the Usn Journal. It decides it needs to be repaired,
so first it says "repairing Usn journal" and then "Resetting Usn Information"
or something to that effect. It definitely used the word resetting, and at
the end of the message was a percentage, 0%, and it was taking a very, VERY
long time! I was a little freaked out, wondering whether it was overwriting
stuff, but decided to trust chkdsk. At the end of this, it rebooted, Win2k
started up again, but now halfway through the logo'd boot process I get a
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE STOP. I find it intriguing that it had no trouble
reading boot.ini, displaying my startup menu, yet somehow cannot access the
partition.
So then I go to my other installation; the drive appears as "Local Disk
(C"...that's not good! I try to open it up, and I get this error:
c:\ is not accessible. There is not enough space on the disk.
Opening up a command prompt and switching to C: yields the last sentence
again. I went to Disk Management, and my C: partition is displayed as "(C
Healthy (Active)" but with no file system (and 100% free space, ironically).
So, I went to the command prompt and did a chkdsk /f on c:. Amazingly,
chkdsk reported my partition information correctly:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is The Bucket.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problem.
33013543 KB total disk space.
26201340 KB in 62068 files.
21176 KB in 4340 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
173447 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
6617580 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
8253385 total allocation units on disk.
1654395 allocation units available on disk.
Notice, it gives my volume label, displays the file system as NTFS, and says
I have plenty of free space. This chkdsk also took a fair amount of time to
complete, suggesting that the directory structure/etc is still intact. I
used a demo product to view the files in the partition; and all appears to be
there.
I have tried FIXMBR and FIXBOOT in the Recovery Console to no avail. FIXMBR
displays a warning saying my partition table is non-standard; I told it to
overwrite anyway and nothing changed. I still get exactly the same errors
and results as above. I'm just about out of ideas; any suggestions? Thanks
in advance,
-- Joren
help with this; I have been searching the 'net and these groups for some time
looking for anything similar. I'm hoping that if a solution is found someone
else's search will be made easier. Forgive me if this is too verbose; I like
to include as much detail as possible to minimize the amount of replying that
is needed .
First, let's get the easy stuff out of the way. No, I'm not running any
SCSI setup or unique controllers; this is straight up IDE with a master disk
on the first chain. There is a NTFS bootable partition taking up most of the
space on the drive; the rest is unused.
I was booting Windows 2000 Professional SP4 normally; this has been a
relatively long duration install. I noticed that the system had decided to
run chkdsk, so I let it run. It replaces a couple badly linked temporary
files, then it checks the Usn Journal. It decides it needs to be repaired,
so first it says "repairing Usn journal" and then "Resetting Usn Information"
or something to that effect. It definitely used the word resetting, and at
the end of the message was a percentage, 0%, and it was taking a very, VERY
long time! I was a little freaked out, wondering whether it was overwriting
stuff, but decided to trust chkdsk. At the end of this, it rebooted, Win2k
started up again, but now halfway through the logo'd boot process I get a
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE STOP. I find it intriguing that it had no trouble
reading boot.ini, displaying my startup menu, yet somehow cannot access the
partition.
So then I go to my other installation; the drive appears as "Local Disk
(C"...that's not good! I try to open it up, and I get this error:
c:\ is not accessible. There is not enough space on the disk.
Opening up a command prompt and switching to C: yields the last sentence
again. I went to Disk Management, and my C: partition is displayed as "(C
Healthy (Active)" but with no file system (and 100% free space, ironically).
So, I went to the command prompt and did a chkdsk /f on c:. Amazingly,
chkdsk reported my partition information correctly:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is The Bucket.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problem.
33013543 KB total disk space.
26201340 KB in 62068 files.
21176 KB in 4340 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
173447 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
6617580 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
8253385 total allocation units on disk.
1654395 allocation units available on disk.
Notice, it gives my volume label, displays the file system as NTFS, and says
I have plenty of free space. This chkdsk also took a fair amount of time to
complete, suggesting that the directory structure/etc is still intact. I
used a demo product to view the files in the partition; and all appears to be
there.
I have tried FIXMBR and FIXBOOT in the Recovery Console to no avail. FIXMBR
displays a warning saying my partition table is non-standard; I told it to
overwrite anyway and nothing changed. I still get exactly the same errors
and results as above. I'm just about out of ideas; any suggestions? Thanks
in advance,
-- Joren