My son was logging on to his Facebook account, when our cat walked on our power button of the power strip, turning off the system - I know, I need to move that power strip.

When he turned on the power strip, the system was going thru the bootup process. We got this STOP error that keeps recurring during the Win2k splash screen (progress bar seems to get to about 85%):

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x8499C5D0, 0xC0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

Refer to your Getting Started manual for more information on troubleshooting Stop errors.

------- END OF STOP ERROR

How can I check for viruses or run CHKDSK? With a Win2k CD?
I checked the BIOS for proper configuration of the drive. No changes there.
There have not been any hardware changes to check.

Is there any hope to repairing this system, since it doesn't get to Windows?

Try booting to Safe Mode (F8 during boot screen). If it doesn't boot into that, then either the hard drive is defective, the drive controller on the motherboard is dead, or something went out in the power supply, like the +12 volt line that powers the drive motor. Also, if it has a floppy drive, make sure there's no disc in it. It is probably worth a BIOS reset, too. I've seen systems 'lose' hardware during a glitch, but find it in Safe Mode. After that, the system may boot normally.

Do you mean setting the BIOS to factory default?

I will check the power supply voltages first. I will let you know. If it IS the supply, I hope I can find a replacement!

Thanks!

There is also a strong possibility that because the computer was in the middle of booting it corrupted system files. Use your operating system disk to perform a repair reinstall "over the top" of Windows and that may straighten out the system files. Worth a shot before you start replacing things. Boot into the BIOS and set First Boot Device=CD, and insert the disk and reboot. Note: do a REPAIR reinstall, not a full system clean install or you will lose all your data and programs.

I found that the power supply voltages were all good. I also confirmed the drive configuration in BIOS to be good.

I also tried booting to Safe Mode and to Last Known Good Configuration, but no help.

I do not have the Win2k CD, but I may be able to borrow one. If I do, I'll run the repair.

I did a Windows REPAIR, and it actually WORKED!

Thanks, guys!

Same Problem Here & I Don't Have the win 2000 Cd Plz Help me

Is It possible to Access The Recovery Colsole from Dos If I Boot the Pc

With UBCD ??? Plz Help

& Thanks for any Help

After the Bootloader menue selection, it'll ask you if you want the Last known Good configuration, hit the spacebar, then the next page will have you hit "L" for LKG then hit "Enter"

Generally, for a non-bootable windows install, you should first boot to the CD and when eventually you get to the first options page you can hit R to get to the recovery console. (looks like a DOS mode)
When at the command prompt you must choose which windows install to log onto (even if there is only 1) then you log in with the Administrator account and eventually get to the prompt
at the prompt you can run commands like chkdsk (seen this find errors and resurrect a PC in minutes) or fixboot to rewrite the windows boot sector code (seen this 2 minute fix a few times too)
Failing those, I usually re-boot to the CD again, hit Enter at the first menu to install windows and then it scans for and finds (hopefully) your windows install. Then you're given the choice to repair which is the one to choose. This option actually does different things depending on what windows finds wrong with the install...it might fix it in 2 mins (replacing just the files it needs) or it might effectively do a reinstall over the top which keeps your installed apps etc but does lose a lot of the registry so some things need reinstalled ... you don't lose data though.

A quick google search of the hex address (0x0000007B) yielded the following link on microsoft's knowledge base. Go read the article and see if it provides any help.