> My son, who built the computer took of for CA early today with all the disks > so I have no system disk. Problem is this. The machine will not boot to > windows. It goes as far as the splash screen for the mb and then it goes > black with a flashing _ about 3 lines from the top of the screen. I went > into the bios and checked to see that everything was ok. Enabled and > disabled some things and tried again-no good. I set it to boot from the HD > and that did not work. Then I went to another computer and copied the boot > ini file to a floppy. Tried again and that didn't work. Then I burned a cd > with all backup sys files from my other computer and tried again, setting > the boot drive to the CD drive. that didn't work.
Unless you made the CD bootable, you can't boot from it: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=make+bootable+cd Likewise with the floppy: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=NTFS+boot+floppy > Then I put the CD that > came with the mb in and tried again-this time I got a command line to the A > drive. I went to the ms knowledge base and could not find anything that > corresponded to this problem. I then searched the list archives and still > could not find anything that pertains to this. I tried to figure out a > command that would get me to the C drive and into windows but so far no > luck. I keep getting either bad command, bad file name or no memory errors. > Can someone help me with the proper syntax from A to C drive and into the > windows GUI? Andy already explained how to use the F8 key to get into Windows Safe Mode, but frankly it sounds to me like the boot process is not even getting to that point. Either your Windows system files are corrupt, or there is a hardware failure (HD or HD controller). Does the BIOS report the existence of the hard drive? Eventually you'll need the Windows XP CD to do further troubleshooting and repairs. Gary VanderMolen -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
