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Expert: Thomas - 8/3/2007


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I'm having the popular problem of the blue screen that says inaccessible_boot_device when i try to start up windows 2000 on my main PC. i have no backup of any of the data on there and i will do virtually anything to get it back. like the rest i have tried safe mode and last known configuration and it brings up the same blue screen, please can you help me with any suggestions at all?
thanks
Ash

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install Windows 2000 over itself without partitioning/formatting the harddisk, it will tell you that it has found an existing Windows on the Harddrive and if u want to replace it, choose YES and you will loose no personal data in that case, but every software has to be reinstalled afterwards including the Service Packs....thats one way, the other would be to insert the drive in another PC and backup your data on this machine then....afterwards you could install yours from scratch...

but this will only work when the drive is not damaged...

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