rdaggett Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 my current problem is that I have a gateway 4300 with W2K loaded on it ....If I do a cold boot on it the computer boots to an Inaccessible Boot Device error ...I had same problem with a gateway 4100 and 4000 and I made a boot disk that ran CHKDSK and it would resolve the problem but not with this 4300 I was thinking of trying to us gdisk or fixmbr to recover this ....anyone with any other ideas?just a side note .... this is not a virus or anything .... it happens with all of these Gateway E Series Thank you for your ideas and help R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdaggett Posted June 10, 2005 Author Share Posted June 10, 2005 well gdisk didnt work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 Can you boot to the BIOS and change the startup sequence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjz Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Havew you tried a repair from the boot cd? Auto or console?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Get a new hard drive, then ghost the one with the probelm to the new one, if it successfully ghosts the problem is normally solved. If it won't ghost, install drive in another machine as a secondary drive recover any data if possible and then reload new drive. I see this alot on laptops and their drives are normally starting to fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdaggett Posted June 13, 2005 Author Share Posted June 13, 2005 Thank you all for your info ..... figured out that a piece of software was causing the gdisk,ntfschk, fixmbr, fdisk /mbr ...... not to recover the drive .... got to hate software developers that dont test everything out .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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