JensenPark Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Hi guys... have been having some 'issues' lately with the old 'puter make a long story short, when I start up it now says "boot disk error" and asks to install system disk and press enter so I put in my XP disk and press enter and get nothing. tried to reboot with the disk in and get the whole set up rigamarole with XP (I cancelled out as I was afraid it was heading into reformat territory). Any ideas guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Some things I found: Test your Hard Drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted November 5, 2006 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted November 5, 2006 First thing when seeing that message is to make sure there isn't a floppy disk in the drive, easily overlooked! You can try making a bootable floppy from another XP pc, but it has to have identical system drive type: [*:22tzsch4]Format a floppy in XP[*:22tzsch4]Copy the following files to it (must have hidden and system files viewable): [li]boot.ini[*:22tzsch4]ntldr[*:22tzsch4]ntdetect.com [/li] Try booting off that, if successful then you copy those three files to the root of your system/boot disk. There are circumstances where applications remove or modify these files, Norton Antivirus is one such program that, when being un-installed, will render a system unbootable because it deleted the boot.ini. Quite funny really, as that it typical virus behaviour! I have experienced the above on large corporate servers, taking a panic 'phone call from a tech crapping himself because the server failed to boot after maintenance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensenPark Posted November 5, 2006 Author Share Posted November 5, 2006 LOL - you got it Rog - I uninstalled Norton. How do I deal with that? As you have noted below? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted November 5, 2006 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted November 5, 2006 Insert Windows XP CD and restart—at the first R... boot.ini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum B16Enk Posted November 5, 2006 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted November 5, 2006 I could create an image of a bootable floppy if required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBloke Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Here's Microscrumtom's KB with some helpful examples on boot.ini http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305595 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo.Pepper Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Rog, Kelly - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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