win2000 inaccesible_Boot_Device

[morganlefay]

Sounds like the 200 mb drive is flucked up somehow...physically...

Maybe a bent pin on the connecter....

Can you try it in another machine as slave???

MLF

[foxyloxley]

the fixmbr always puts out that 'warning'

I feel you need to fixmbr and to do it when the 200GB is set as master
IMHO natch

[.:front2back:.]

Howdy.

No physical damage to the 200Gb drive, i set the jumper on it to slave, and put it in my suse box and it is detected at Bios, suse load ups, and i can see the drive, but it will not let me mount it.

cheers
f2B

[morganlefay]

What kinda of cable are you using???

Is there a difference in the 2 boxes??



MLF

[.:front2back:.]

Howdy.

It's just a normal cable IDE cable {I think that's the word for it, i'm to tired to think. }
One box is
32bit, <-Suse10.0
while the other is
64bit<-windows box

[rcgreen]

I would put the 200g drive in alone, set as primary master.
Boot from the windows install cd and partition the drive.
then you could stop, reinstall the old drive as primary master,
200g as slave whatever, and try to fix the problems on the
40g drive. Like others have said, the MBR on the 200g is
messed up. that's why you can't mount it under linux.

I would consider the practice of copying a partition to
another drive to be an experimental method.
Prolly better to install from scratch.

[morganlefay]

You know maybe partition Magic has a limit on the harddrive size it can recognize\copy to...and the 200 gig threw it off...which then mucked everything up

As suggested by rc ...try setting up a partition first...then use the partition magic to copy the os/??

Hopefully you can recover the 40 gig drive

Just thoughts

MLF

[SirDice]

Originally posted here by .:front2back:.
No physical damage to the 200Gb drive, i set the jumper on it to slave, and put it in my suse box and it is detected at Bios, suse load ups, and i can see the drive, but it will not let me mount it.

Looks like the drive is borked.. Or perhaps the BIOS cannot handle disks that large..

Since it's not working right now.. Have you tried just a quick 'n dirty w2k install on it?

[.:front2back:.]

Howdy.

well i ended up recovering the contents of the 40Gb drive. And the 200Gb drive has been returned to the shop that it was purchased from. And i was given a replacement.
I took the drive into a local computer shop, Anyhow it took 'em from 9:30Am until 2Pm in the afternoon, but they used some program and were able to copy all the needed data over to a temp drive for me.

Anyhow i don't think that i will be touching that damned partition magic anymore..

greenies to all those that helped

cheers
f2B