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INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

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hai,
i currently using windows 2000 and i had just clone my hard drive using acronis clone software, after clone, i had change new motherboard and i get the error message "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE". my old motherboard had spoil and i can't reformat my hard drive cause inside got very important data. anyone can help me? please teach me the right way to clone the hard drive or any other ways to solve this problem. thanks very much.

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In general, you are better off make a full disk backup and then doing a restore. You can sotre multiple copies of the image and there's no danger that you will tell the porgram to erase the original drive when you clone.

Check the BIOS to see that it points to the correct harddisk as the boot device.

IF you have a diff motherboard, you might need different drivers than were installed in the original disk image, in which case you would need to use universal restore rather than the regular ati.