it wont.<P>the repair disk wont even be able to find the windows install TO repair, because its an inaccessible device<P>because it _doesnt know_ how to talk to the motherboards hard drive controllers ...

I've been running relatively stable for the last few months. Receive a notification this morning that windows needed to restart for an update. Figure it's something that downloaded in the background ...

If you see a Stop Error – 0x7B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE after applying Windows Updates on your Windows 11/10/8/7 system, know that it is the result of the boot ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing "boot device inaccessible" errors during startup on some Windows Server 2025 systems using iSCSI. "This is observed on servers operating under NDIS Poll Mode ...