[NBLUG/talk] Lost Windows 2000 from Dual Boot machine

Peter Lutz plutz at sonic.net
Fri Dec 14 09:28:53 PST 2007


Good morning.

I was messing with gparted on a dual (actually triple) boot machine.
I got some of the partitioning changed as I wished, but now Windoz does
not boot.  Both Ubuntu 7.10 and Debian Testing boot and run perfectly,
and I can mount and read the Windows files from either Linux system just
fine.  When I try to boot Windows, the splash screen comes up just fine.
The blue bar starts across the screen, but about half way across I get a
blue screen saying    stop: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE    a bunch of hex
numbers and some suggestions for fixing things.  Suggestions are:
Check for viruses.  That is very unlikely, as I seldom run Windows and
don't do virus kinds of things.  Mostly I run my old GPS map programs.
Remove new hardware.  There is none.  The system has been working fine
for six months.
Check HD for proper termination and configuration.  Well, yes, the
config seems to have changed.  Termination is fine.
Run CHKDSK /F to check for HD corruption.  How, on a broken computer?
The box has no floppy drive, although I could put one in.

AMD64X2, 2GByte ram, 400GByte disk, difficult Nvidia card (requires a
new module set whenever I build a new kernel).

The boot system is GRUB, which seems to be working just fine with the
Linux systems.

My question is: is this fixable without trashing the whole system?
Windows was the first system installed.  If I re-install windows, will
I loose access to the Linux?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Peter
-- 
Peter Lutz AA6AV
Meaning is homemade.



More information about the talk mailing list