re: Windows 2000 Login Loop and Inaccessabile Boot Device BSOD
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 10:48 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6908 messages posted)
If the BIOS doesn't have an option to boot from a USB device, what is happening is
that it is trying to boot from the HDD, not the USB drive. Without a floppy and
CDROM, it gets very complicated to get Windows reinstalled or repaired. You will
have to remove the HDD, and prep the HDD to at least boot to a command prompt after
you have copied an Windows install CD to the HDD. Then you could run the installer
for a clean install or a repiar install. You will also need to have a valid key
for Windows (should be one on the machine).
Either way, if you have data that needs to be saved, it would mean removing the HDD
and connecting it somehow to another machine to save data and/or load an install
CD to it, and that all depends on if the HDD hasn't failed. This means you will
have to have an adaptor to connect the HDD to a desktop machine, or mount the drive
in a USB encloser to copy/save the data, and copy an install CD, then prep the drive
to boot to the command prompt. In any event, anything you do will be a little or
a lot complicated depending on your level of expertise.
As for the registry, it has to be mounted (it's not stored as a normal TXT file that
can be edited), and we usually use a memory based Linux system that doesn't have
to be loaded on a HDD to open it. That has a learning curve to it too. There may
be other ways to mount and edit it, but that is the option I use.
If you aren't comfortable doing any of this, then you will have to find someone experienced
in such procedures to do it.
Is there a restore partition on the HDD that can be accessed? Usually that was what
the manufacturers would do when there was no USB boot option, CD ROM or floppy..
A manual for the machine might help in this situation if other/any options for restoring
the machine are possible.
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