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chicagochad2000
March 23rd, 2007, 01:21 AM
I have a computer with Windows 4.0 NT workstation and the other day I went to Microsoft.com and downloaded a "critical update" and when I restarted the machine I had the "blue screen of death" with the inaccessible boot device message.
I am not very computer savy but did try making a boot disk but that didn't work. If anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
Chad
Spider
March 23rd, 2007, 06:25 AM
Hi chicagochad2000 welcome to Cyber Tech Help.
Does it boot to Safe Mode?
Push the F8 key at one second intervals as the computer first starts up.
Select Safe Mode, push enter.
chicagochad2000
March 23rd, 2007, 02:31 PM
It won't boot to safe mode. Thanks.
Chad
Spider
March 24th, 2007, 06:10 AM
How about 3 boot floppies (http://support.mpccorp.com/downloads/boot.html).
chicagochad2000
March 28th, 2007, 08:49 PM
It says non-system disk or disk error. I'm not sure what to try next. Thanks for the help.
Chad
Spider
March 29th, 2007, 01:41 AM
If your booting to the floppies you must make sure the BIOS settings show the Boot Order with A: (Floppy) first.
chicagochad2000
March 29th, 2007, 06:13 PM
I checked that and it is set up for boot to floppy first. Thanks for trying to help me figure this out. I appreciate it.
Chad
Spider
March 29th, 2007, 06:56 PM
I'll assume you downloaded...
Workstation (3 Setup Disks)
NT401.EXE
NT402.EXE
NT403.EXE
So you put a blank floppy in the drive and then click on NT401.EXE. It makes the first NT boot floppy,
you remove it, put in another blank and click on NT402.EXE to make the second and the same for the third.