Hi, I am having a similar problem with the 400SC, everything installs ok, but on reboot it tells me inaccessible boot device, or sometimes NTLDR not found or corrupt ... I've tried Windows 2000 and Windows XP with similar results.
After reinstalling the OS about 15 times, I finally got it to be a little stable in that it rebooted quite a few times, but it's now not booting again. I also have programs running that are constantly reporting disk errors. When I run the diagnostics on the hard drive though it finds no problems. Please help
You probably are not loading the correct SCSI or EIDE drive during setup, if you are getting disk errors, or inaccessible boot device errors during setup.
Drivers is what I suspected, after faulty disk drive ...
I have run all the Dell Diagnostics, and they report nothing wrong with the hard disk. I have just deleted the paritition again, recreated, and reformatted it, reinstalled W2K, and double-checked that I have the latest drivers installed. After rebooting about 5 times, and starting to feel confident, it again failed on reboot, telling me ntldr.sys was not found. It's back up and running again, rebooted 3 times so far without a crash.
I have a small system, with only one IDE 40GB drive on the primary controller (I'm using it as a desktop), and a CD-ROM on the secondary controller. I have not added anything at all, received it recently without an OS, and used the Dell System Support CD to install Windows 2000. First time this failed pretty quickly, so I repartitioned it and reinstalled without using the Dell System Support CD. This failed too. I've since downloaded whatever drivers I could find on the Support site, and have tried to install them all. Now it fails less often, but still fails. Installed the latest Service Packs ... no help.
GrantC007
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January 6th, 2004 23:00
Hi, I am having a similar problem with the 400SC, everything installs ok, but on reboot it tells me inaccessible boot device, or sometimes NTLDR not found or corrupt ... I've tried Windows 2000 and Windows XP with similar results.
After reinstalling the OS about 15 times, I finally got it to be a little stable in that it rebooted quite a few times, but it's now not booting again. I also have programs running that are constantly reporting disk errors. When I run the diagnostics on the hard drive though it finds no problems. Please help
Quino
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January 7th, 2004 12:00
GrantC007
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January 8th, 2004 05:00
Hi, thanks for your reply.
Drivers is what I suspected, after faulty disk drive ...
I have run all the Dell Diagnostics, and they report nothing wrong with the hard disk. I have just deleted the paritition again, recreated, and reformatted it, reinstalled W2K, and double-checked that I have the latest drivers installed. After rebooting about 5 times, and starting to feel confident, it again failed on reboot, telling me ntldr.sys was not found. It's back up and running again, rebooted 3 times so far without a crash.
I have a small system, with only one IDE 40GB drive on the primary controller (I'm using it as a desktop), and a CD-ROM on the secondary controller. I have not added anything at all, received it recently without an OS, and used the Dell System Support CD to install Windows 2000. First time this failed pretty quickly, so I repartitioned it and reinstalled without using the Dell System Support CD. This failed too. I've since downloaded whatever drivers I could find on the Support site, and have tried to install them all. Now it fails less often, but still fails. Installed the latest Service Packs ... no help.
Any ideas?
gac