Ok i made an Xp bootable CD. I did this 2 times and I followed all the instructions, burned it in nero as CDROM (boot) with all the correct settings. I downloaded the XP boot record (bin file) and I used that as the boot image.However, when I use this on the computer I am tryikng to install it on, it says "searching for Master boot record on CD.." for about 15 seconds on startup and then just boots from the existing hard drive OS because aparently it can't find the boot record.The cds work fine on my laptop, if i put it in and run it after my laptop is already started up, the windows xp menu for installationcomes up fine.never had this happen before so i don't know what the problem is.. i changed the boot priority so it is trying to bootfrom the cd rom, but just cant.
First I'll describe what I intended to do, followed by me explaining my problems, and ended with my actual question.Intentions:Fixing my Master boot record file with a FIXMBR and removing my Ubuntu installation due to lack of usage, amongst things. Merging the old Linux partitions space with one of my current NTFS partitions for the extra space (all above-mentioned partitions are on the same HDD, for the record). Would've done this with Partition Magic.
I have a dual boot system (2 hard drives) booting Suse and XP and boot up through Suse's built in boot manager which gives me the option of booting to Windows or Linux. But since I barely ever use Linux I want to delete it off the 2nd drive so I can use it for a storage drive, so I'm wondering how to replace the Windows Master Boot Record so I can just boot into my XP drive. I'm scared that once I delete/reformat the contents of the 2nd hard drive (I'll probably use Partition Magic to do this through my XP drive) that I won't be able to boot XP up anymore. So before I do anything I want to just be able to boot into XP and bypass the linux drive before I delete it to make sure everything is ok.
I have xp pro and woke to a blue screen. When I rebooted it, it runs through post but stops before win xp logo comes on. Now it says the computer is searching for boot record.
my PC has 2 disks it was setup with a boot manager on disk1 disk1 has linux. disk2 is my Win XP disk. my question is can I safely write a boot block on disk2 and not loose data like the XP CD warns you about? I'm not using Linux on disk1 anymore, but I need the boot manager to boot XP on disk2. so the question is how safe is it to use the XP CD and fix/create a boot record on disk2? Are there any issues? I really don't want to restore because of the software is already working..
I have a hard drive from an old computer (Win 2000 Pro) that I wanted to piggy back on my new computer.Only thing is it wont recognize it since it shows it as a Master Boot Record drive.I even tried putting it in an external hard drive enclosure with a USB. System saw it and loaded it properly, but it is not available in Windows Explorer.Its just plain "not there"!
When I use the diskeeper 8.0 to defrage the drive, it found out that on my master boot record there are 3 fragments. how to unified these 3 fragments into 1?
I have a Gateway GT5032, Athlon X2 4200+ w/ 1GB RAM, 80GB (system) & 250GB HDs running WinXP MCE 2005. I was using the PC to open Nero VisionExpress while I was opening an edited DVR-MS (~1GB) movie when the movie became very choppy till it froze (Nero took a while to load as well). After waiting several minutes I end tasked the movie and continued to have a slow response time from the PC. It returned to normal speed, then I would try opening the movie (using Windows Media Player) and the movie was still choppy till it stalled. I eventually restarted the PC...I noticed that it took a LONG time to boot WinXP and would ''stall'' every 5 seconds for about 2 seconds. During bootup it reported that an error was in C:Windowssystem32Rasapi32.dll, but it did boot into Windows and all.
I rebooted in hopes of fixing the problem, but then the PC had trouble recognizing drives. After being shut off for about 10 minutes, the BIOS recognizes all drives again but reports an MBR error on boot up and will not even load Windows. I'm assuming that MBR is the Master Boot Record...and that scares me a lot. I am wandering if there is any easy way to repair this problem. And also if the MBR is indeed damaged, could it also have harmed my other files on the HD (such as Rasapi32.dll)? What is the function of Rasapi32.dll. I don't suspect a virus as I was not running any suspicious files lately.
I was messing around with Ubuntu Linux and it installed GRUB on the master boot record and I want it gone. I was told to type 'fdisk /mbr' in MSDOS mode to get rid of GRUB. I dont know how do get into MSDOS mode.. command prompt doesnt work.
I booted up my computer and got an error message saying "STOP: C0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file):System RootSystem32ConfigDEFAULT or its log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable" I tried rebooting in safe mode, to no avail. Now I can't even get it to come back to the other "STOP" error screen because every time I boot up my computer a window pops up labeled "Dell PC Restore by Symantec" and states The Dell system recovery tool has detected an unsupported change in your master boot record. The tool cannot run at this time."
During System startup, the system always halts at "Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility". The only way I can manage to boot to Windows is by selecting "Boot to utility partition" from the Boot Device Menu or if there is a Windows XP installation CD in the cd-rom drive. When I boot this way, everything works fine .This behavior started when I performed a fresh install of XP Professional (XP Home came with the system). The problem did not start immediately after the installation; I was able to install some drivers and reboot a couple times (maybe twice) before it happened. When I installed the display driver (from Dell) and rebooted, it went to the "Strike F1. " screen. I have since tried another fresh installation of XP Home (the original OS) and the problem is still occuring. This time it occurs immediately after the installation; No drivers have been installed at this point.
I have a very old laptop laying around my house. so i wanted to see if it still works. i booted it up into windows xp. And it was unbareablaby slow. So i decided to wipe out windows and install ubuntu. i burnt a xubuntu cd and put it in the laptop's external cd drive, set the bios to boot cd before harddrive. It didn't work. i then tried booting it on my working computer, it worked. so therefore, my laptop cant boot from cd, but my laptop could read the cd drive in windows. It said hal.dll corrupted, so i went back to windows and downloaded hal.dll from a website. i replaced the hal.dll in windows and rebooted. tried selecting ubuntu but didn't work, then tried to boot into windows, but didn't work. so right now, i have a laptop that doesn't have a working os.
I am unable to boot my PC most of the times.Whenever I switch on my PC,I see the following message nine ot of ten times. DiskError/Boot Faliure Reboot and select proper boot device or insert Boot media in selected boot device If I press enter after this messages & keep pressing following messages appear from time to time (Not simultaneously). If just after making the switch on, I press F2 key to check the boot device preference
If just after making the switch on , I press f11 key to reach the boot menu I always find the 1.44 MB Floppy option highlighted as the booting choice.(though there had not been any floppy in the floppy drive, I dont have any really)I make the hard disk option highlighted & it solves the problem only a few times. But next time when I try F11 key to check the boot menu again I find 1.44 MB floppy highlighted.
I want to install a new primary hard drive and reinstall windows xp from scratch on the new c: drive. For the moment I would also like to retain the old disc contents and the xp operating system. To try to do this I installed a second hard drive and cloned the old drive c: to the new drive f:. I created a dual boot computer by editing my boot.ini file so I could boot from either the c: or f: drive. I replaced my primary hard drive with a new drive and booted up in the f: drive. Then I cloned the f: drive back to the new c: drive creating a dual boot system. My concern now is that if I reinstall windows xp on the newly installed hard drive, the Dell installation disk will wipe out the operating system and the contents on the f: drive. Is there any way to retain the old system? I'd appreciate any help with this.
I have a strange audio problem which i havent encounted before and cant for the life of me figure it out.My microphone isnt recording exteral sound, but i can record sound only from in the computer i.e. "what you hear" records.
I went to try to install windows xp onto a computer that already had windows on it. I did not boot from the cd. To do it without using the cd it has to copy the installation files to the computer and then run them. When setup does this it creates a new choice of an operating system to boot from called "Windows XP Setup." So now I have a Windows XP and a Windows XP setup. I've been in msconfig and looked at boot.ini but that didn't help
I have recently upgraded my PC but keeping the same OS and software from before. My system drive pre-upgrade was "I" as I had a lot of hard drives. When I upgraded I removed all but 3 drives, one of those being the system drive. After the upgrade I turned on the PC and found "system disk error" message. So I made sure in Bios it was using the correct drive as a first boot, and it was. I then downloaded a boot CD (I don't have a floppy drive) with NTLDR or something like that on, and luckily it booted up fine. But I can't get in to windows without this CD. I have copied the files across from the CD to both my HD's, but I still get the error. I have copied a Boot.ini file from my other PC and still no luck. I am guessing one of the drives I pulled out must have had some kind of boot info on, I assumed it would all be on the system drive (drive "I" in this case)
My system drive is still "I", which I will have to keep it at to allow all my old software to still work, but it shows up as "drive 0" so surely as long as the boot.ini has "drive 0" and the rest of the usual info, then it should boot fine?
I have been trying to dual boot my 2 operating systems which are on 2 separate sata drives for some time. I have read around and can't find a solutions that seems like it should or would work for me. I have 3 hard drives 2 sata and 1 ide, the ide just has music mp3's. I used to dual boot my 2 XP operating systems just fine by changing the boot.ini but I can't find the correct way to choose the numbers with my new Vista installation
My motherboard went kaput. I got a new motherboard and was going to avoid formating by using a repair install. I did the repair install and booted to windows (in safe mode) but it crashed on agp440.sys, which seems to be a fairly common problem with outdated chipset drivers. I know I can disable this driver in the recovery console, but when I boot to my XP disk, it cannot find my XP installation, It just goes straight to the screen where I can pick a partition to install onto. How did my XP install get lost? I recently fixed up my boot records and everything was fine, I was always able to use the recovery console. Obviously the install is there since I can start booting to it.
I format windows 98 with win98 startup disk and windows XP was installed. every start the pc,it prompt two boot loader for option.windoes 98 or windows XP. How to delete the window 98 option on the boot loader screen because windows 98 had been formated.
I haven't installed anything new on my computer but today after having my computer shipped to me via UPS I cut on my computer and where the XP load bar screen was I got: "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device".Seeing this I knew I went into the BIOS setup and tried to turn the system priority to look at the HDD. Instead I only had the option of the DVD drive and the CD drive.I have no idea how to solve this problem and don't have any of the recovery CD's. I DO NOT WANT TO REFORMAT because like a bad little boy I did not backup my 4 years worth of work.
i am trying to edit vidoe in windows but it is really unstable i tried to make a dual boot linux but after multiple distros it got fed up and gave up. now i am thinking of makeing 2 windows partitons im just wonder ing if this is possible i also need a good boot load does anyone know of any?
Well one of our computers is kind of on the fritz. We got a new hard drive and loaded up XP onto it. Then we put all the stuff off the old hard drive onto the new hard drive. (Virus scanned by McAfee first). Windows will not boot from the HD no matter what I try. The CD must be the drive, it must boot from it, try to run setup (blue-screen style set up) and then we have to push f9 twice to exit from that before it will open windows. It's a little frustrating and the person who uses the computer is well.
Ive been searching forums for days, time to post my issue. Few nights ago I booted my laptop (IBM T43) running xp and received something close to "Disk Read error" before even hitting the windows or any black option screen. I receipted my hard drive, checked the bios and set to default settings and tried again. Same error. After tons of forum ideas i verified I could view all my files and folders off the hard drive whenever I hook up my hard drive as a usb connection to another laptop. Or if I boot from winxp cd and use recovery console I can do a dir and see the files and folders. I ran chkdsk /r from there and right off the bat I was getting "unreadable something ( I apologiz but its been days and I dont want to give false info), it was not clusters though. Im sure of that. I got a bunch of those and it showed the unreadable "spots". Ie. 1052, 1053, 1054, 1060, 1061, etc.. after awhile it moved onto the rest of chkdsk. I think there were some damaged clusters but it claimed it repaired them all. Anyway, when I rebooted, i now dont get the disk read error, I now get some weird syntax about a paragrapgh long that doesnt even list errors its just weird syntax. I can get it if you need it but i promise it is not errors or unreadable msgs.. And there not even msgs.
I wanted to run last known good config to see if it would work. So question 1 would be, is there a way to access the advanced menu through a cmd prompt? Anyway, in recovery console I ran fixmbr and fixboot. None of those resolved the problem. However, i was using the commands based off of microsofts "advanced recovery console command" article page. And it doesnt explain too much so I might not have been doing much at all. My next step was to boot to the xp cd again but now choose install, accept terms, then choose to "r" repair the current installation. It finished, rebooted and I still have the weird syntax.Heres the deal, because I can still see my files and folders, AND can access them connected usb to another laptop, I thought it was my MBR. But I while having my hd connected usb to the working laptop I decided to use bootup using a temporary boot device and using my usb connected HD. The errors were now on the working laptop. I rebooted normally and all back to normal on the good laptop. One last thing is when in r console I did a listsrv. I noticed a service called NTFS was disabled.
Now Ive never heard of that as a service but since my machine is ntfs i was thinking it should be on. So i ran the cmd to turn the service on through r console. I received the error msg about it not being located within the registry. So now my newest theory. Is this all about my registry being corrupted? Any help would be great. Im about to throw in the towel and just try to load a fresh install over the existing. But A I really dont feel like looking for my oem number (I know theres apps out there but remember id have to run the app to point at a usb connected drive) and B i feel like Im giving up if i just image it.
i have a peculiar problem. on my comp. i have XP and fedora 8. one day while transfering a file in XP mode (from one drive to another drive) my comp. got struck. i restarted it. then windows has checked the disk for some inconsistencies. in that process, it has deleted some files. after that i am not able to boot into my XP. after the XP logo, the system is again restarting.i am able to enter into Fedora 8 and work there. but not with XP.i tried to repair my windows with Xp CD. but it is not loading. is there any way to fix this problem.
computer was accidently switched off during a Restore operation which was taking my computer to a point prior to a time before I had loaded 15 gig of information.On trying to restart I am given an option of starting up in varios modes; all of which fail to reboot the computer.Safe mode brings up a screen with "safe mode" written in the 4 corners of the screen;the mouse arrow is available on the screen but I can't get the reeboot to commence.Do I need to obtain the xp cd from the manufacturer or can I cure it some other way.
I am finding i can only boot my pc from the windows cd instead of the normal way.(on the black start screen which details hard drives etc . i get the error message _ cannot load OS). This is still occurring after doing two re-installations of windows. I've googled to find some answers , but i struggle to use the diagonistic tools to pinpoint the problem.Any ideas where i should start?
i cannot get into windows. when i startup the computer it says cannot find boot32 or win32 or something. this is not for me but for a friend of a friend.i think his computer hangs on bootup b/c of a missing file or something.
i have some problems with the normal boot with normal XP.I can get into Safe mode with not loading SPDT.sys by pressing esc but i dont know what i must do to get my normal windows loading.What happens if i reboot to normal xp is that it is getting stuck at the blue loading bar with the windows xp logo.I have seen many threads with the same problem but i haven't seen any resolutions so i hope maybe some of u can help me a hand
I think everything is posted in the forums don't apply to ma case, I don't have icons, no task bar, nothing works in the task manager, safe mode and safe mode with network don't works,I just get black screen. if I reboot the computer and hit f8, nothing works in the screen that pop up. so I think the only access I ha to my computer is via console. someone knows how to restore the desktop via console.?
