computerwon't boot after update Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 10:19 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Charles Leiws (1 messages posted) I was given an old Dell Dimenions computer running Windows 2000 that has been out of service for quite a while. At first, it seemed to work well. It had no virus protection, so I installed the free AVG program. After scanning, AVG said it had removed two trojans. Then Windows prompted that updates were available and I accepted. The update process took so long that I decided to let it run while I slept. The next morning there was a prompt telling me to "insert boot disk in a: press any key when ready." I had no boot disk but downloaded a set of four from the web. When I try to run a boot disk, I get a short run of the floppy disk followed by the prompt, "remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart." When I do so, it just reverts to the prompt about inserting a boot disk. I do not have access to another machine running 2000. I made a bootable floppy on my XP Home machine using the format menu. With it I can get the drive A command prompt. When I then try to look at drive C, I get the message, invalid drive spec." I do not have the Windows 2000 CD's. Can anyone help me? Thanks Responses to this message: re: computerwon't boot after update (DEX: Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 4:17 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] computerwon't boot after update (Charles Leiws: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 10:19 am) re: computerwon't boot after update (DEX: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 4:17 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum