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I get a blue screen saying "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" and a bunch of other text


This typically means that either the new platform or the old (or both) requires a non-standard disk driver. When Windows boots, the initial boot loader has to be able to read the disk in protected mode (where it can't drop back to an add-in ROM) at a point where it only has the capability of reading the root directory, and when it hasn't yet loaded the registry. To do this, either the disk must be connected to a legacy hard disk controller or register compatible (such as on-board non-RAID IDE or SATA) or there must be a copy of the disk (controller) driver copied to ntbootdd.sys in the root of the boot partition.

Alternatively it may be as simple as the line in boot.ini referring to the old location of the drive, for example if it was the primary master in the old system but is now primary slave.

You can typically do a repair install of the OS to fix this. Boot from the install CD, hit F6 to select an additional drivers required, insert the driver floppy when prompted, then select to install or upgrade (not the first Repair option), then select the location of your old Windows installation and choose to reinstall over the top. This will cause setup to write a new ntbootdd.sys driver, if needed, or fix up the line in boot.ini if that's the problem. It'll also re-do all of the hardware detection so you shouldn't have any more problems with incorrect drivers.

See also How to perform an in-place upgrade of Windows 2000[^] in Microsoft's Knowledge Base.


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