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Problem with O/S CD booting
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Problem with O/S CD booting
Monday, November 12, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Posted by macy
(22 messages posted)
Hi everyone.
Problem with O/S CD:
I’ll try to make this as brief as pos. Recently, I swapped the innards of my old
box into a new one as old one was getting ‘rusty’. All went well for a few days,
then ‘bang!’ comp suddenly shuts down whilst reading CD….eventually…replaced the
power and CD reader units from old PC and all was OK again. Decided to do clean stall,
just in case…I get…’disk I/O error: status 00008000’ tried again and got ‘ntfs.sys
corrupt, press any key to reboot’. Did recovery from backup of entire disk. that
worked. Installed ‘test my hard ware’ and got the following:-
TEST MY HARDWARE
http://www.testmyhardware.com
Storage
Drive : A:
Description : 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive
Drive : C:
Description : Harddisk
Name :
Serial : 34C8B0D0
File System : NTFS
Disk Size : 37.12 GB
Disk Used : 27.05 GB
Disk Free : 10.07 GB
Sectors Per Cluster : 0
Bytes Per Sector : 0
Free Clusters : 0
Num Clusters : 0
Drive : D:
Description : Harddisk
Name :
Serial : 052A0750
File System : NTFS
Disk Size : 39.21 GB
Disk Used : 3.37 GB
Disk Free : 35.83 GB
Sectors Per Cluster : 8
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Free Clusters : 9392887
Num Clusters : 10277575
Drive : E:
Description : Harddisk
Name :
Serial : 064DF567
File System : NTFS
Disk Size : 232.88 GB
Disk Used : 64.37 GB
Disk Free : 168.50 GB
Sectors Per Cluster : 8
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Free Clusters : 44172434
Num Clusters : 61046992
Drive : H:
Description : CD-ROM
The 0’s in drive C from ‘Sectors Per Cluster’ seems not right. Comp works fine except
cannot reinstall W2K. Worried problems are looming. How can I fix this?
Thanks for any help.
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re: Problem with O/S CD booting
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 9:17 am
Posted by DEX
(11745 messages posted)
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Try this
Reboot with the win2k cd, once you get into the setup menu install a 2nd copy of
win2k...put it in a new folder called winnt2 NOT winnt... :)
Then give it a try out,if all things work right remove the 1st copy of win2k and
use the new OS..
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On Monday, November 12, 2007 at 8:59 pm, macy wrote:
>Hi everyone.
>Problem with O/S CD:
>I’ll try to make this as brief as pos. Recently, I swapped the innards of my old
>box into a new one as old one was getting ‘rusty’. All went well for a few days,
>then ‘bang!’ comp suddenly shuts down whilst reading CD….eventually…replaced the
>power and CD reader units from old PC and all was OK again. Decided to do clean
stall,
>just in case…I get…’disk I/O error: status 00008000’ tried again and got ‘ntfs.sys
>corrupt, press any key to reboot’. Did recovery from backup of entire disk. that
>worked. Installed ‘test my hard ware’ and got the following:-
> TEST MY HARDWARE
> http://www.testmyhardware.com
>
>
> Storage
> Drive : A:
> Description : 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive
>
> Drive : C:
> Description : Harddisk
> Name :
> Serial : 34C8B0D0
> File System : NTFS
> Disk Size : 37.12 GB
> Disk Used : 27.05 GB
> Disk Free : 10.07 GB
> Sectors Per Cluster : 0
> Bytes Per Sector : 0
> Free Clusters : 0
> Num Clusters : 0
>
> Drive : D:
> Description : Harddisk
> Name :
> Serial : 052A0750
> File System : NTFS
> Disk Size : 39.21 GB
> Disk Used : 3.37 GB
> Disk Free : 35.83 GB
> Sectors Per Cluster : 8
> Bytes Per Sector : 512
> Free Clusters : 9392887
> Num Clusters : 10277575
>
> Drive : E:
> Description : Harddisk
> Name :
> Serial : 064DF567
> File System : NTFS
> Disk Size : 232.88 GB
> Disk Used : 64.37 GB
> Disk Free : 168.50 GB
> Sectors Per Cluster : 8
> Bytes Per Sector : 512
> Free Clusters : 44172434
> Num Clusters : 61046992
>
> Drive : H:
> Description : CD-ROM
>
>
>The 0’s in drive C from ‘Sectors Per Cluster’ seems not right. Comp works fine except
>cannot reinstall W2K. Worried problems are looming. How can I fix this?
>Thanks for any help.
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re: Problem with O/S CD booting
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 10:44 am
Posted by macy
(22 messages posted)
Thanks for the suggestion DEX, already tried that, I get 'NTDETECT failed press any
key to continue' as soon as CD is read. Yesterday, the CD copied all the files on
the CD then just before setup starts, I get 'file ntfs.sys is corrupted, press any
key'....stuck in limbo! there's no virus/spyware anywhere, I scanned twice with NOD32
and all is OK. W2K works fine including CD read/write....don't want to throw a working
HD away...yet. Can't believe this is an unsolvable unique problem...I now do a quick
prayer before I switch the machine on.....amen!
On Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 9:17 am, DEX wrote:
>Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
>
>Click Here
>
>
>
>
>Try this
>
>Reboot with the win2k cd, once you get into the setup menu install a 2nd copy of
>win2k...put it in a new folder called winnt2 NOT winnt... :)
>
>
>Then give it a try out,if all things work right remove the 1st copy of win2k and
>use the new OS..
>
>
>
>
>
>
Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here
>
>
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re: Problem with O/S CD booting
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 11:37 am
Posted by DEX
(11745 messages posted)
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
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Something you are doing is not right.. :)
The win2k cd will over ride anything on the HD or the machine..that's to say you
should not get a error like NTDETECT FAILED,,, uNLESS the cd is a bad copy..
It's like booting with a 3 1/2" boot disk in a way but the boot files are on the
cd disk...it will make a ram drive for all it's files then move them to the C: once
it reads the HD and sees the fat table is setup right...
1st. make sure your BIOS is set right ,,boot order CDROM;,C:,A; once your sure,
try it one more time..
You can always use the win2k cd and remove the 1st win2k install and then let win2k
reformat the HD and then reinstall....
It will put down all new system files like the NTDETECT,ntfs.sys, plus all the others..
It sounds like win2k is reading the 1st install and giving you the error calls...
Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here
On Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 10:44 am, macy wrote:
>Thanks for the suggestion DEX, already tried that, I get 'NTDETECT failed press
any
>key to continue' as soon as CD is read. Yesterday, the CD copied all the files on
>the CD then just before setup starts, I get 'file ntfs.sys is corrupted, press any
>key'....stuck in limbo! there's no virus/spyware anywhere, I scanned twice with
NOD32
>and all is OK. W2K works fine including CD read/write....don't want to throw a working
>HD away...yet. Can't believe this is an unsolvable unique problem...I now do a quick
>prayer before I switch the machine on.....amen!
>
>
>
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