Inaccessible boot device

INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE is a category of blue screen error for Microsoft Windows with a reason code of 0x7B meaning that the system lost access to the boot partition during startup. It only occurs while the computer is starting and cannot be debugged due to the debugger not being loaded yet.

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Technical Explanation

Common Causes

Parameters

Case 1

  1. Address of the device object that could not be mounted.
  2. 0 (zero)
  3. 0 (zero)
  4. 0 (zero)

Case 2

  1. Address of a Unicode string data structure representing the Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) specification name of the device from which the startup was being attempted.
  2. Pointer to ARC name string in memory.
  3. 0 (zero)
  4. 0 (zero)

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