At 12:11 AM 7-05-06 +, you wrote:
I have an XP Pro machine that has stopped booting. HD tests fine,
and there's a Windows folder, and the boot.ini appears right, but it
won't boot. Any ideas what I can try?
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I have an XP Pro machine that has stopped booting. HD tests fine,
and there's a Windows folder, and the boot.ini appears right, but it
won't boot. Any ideas what I can try?
T
fdisk /mbr ?
Harry
Thane Sherrington wrote:
I have an XP Pro machine that has stopped booting. HD tests fine, and
there's a Windows folder, and the boot.ini appears right, but it won't
boot. Any ideas what I can try?
T
At 04:33 PM 04/07/2006, Harry McGregor wrote:
fdisk /mbr ?
I've gone to the recovery console and done the following:
fixmbr
fixboot
and I also used diskpart to make sure the partition was set to
active. Could there be a missing file?
T
probably not your bug but one of mine did that last week and it was the power
connector was loose on the drive. got a file not found error.
always a repair install, unless it is a proprietary box.
luck
At 01:00 PM 7/4/2006, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with:
At 04:33 PM 04/07/2006, Harry
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 04:33 PM 04/07/2006, Harry McGregor wrote:
fdisk /mbr ?
I've gone to the recovery console and done the following:
fixmbr
fixboot
Hmm, what is the exact error message No OS Found from the bios?
Is it trying to boot the right drive. I had a serve recently that
At 05:02 PM 04/07/2006, FORC5 wrote:
probably not your bug but one of mine did that last week and it was
the power connector was loose on the drive. got a file not found error.
always a repair install, unless it is a proprietary box.
I'm an idiot. I'd jumpered the drive as a slave during a
