hiren's boot disc Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 9:26 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by earflea (2 messages posted) I recently downloaded Hiren's Boot Disc and burned it successfully to a CD-R. It booted satisfactorily and offered a choice of opening Windows or the CD. I tried the Windows choice but nothing happened (not surprisingly in view of later developments) I then used the CD choice and it created a temporary ram disk and everything seemed to load satisfactorily except that it gave a warning that the C: drive could not be opened, which presumably explains why nothing happened when the Windows choice was used. When I rebooted without the CD being inserted but with the boot priority still floppy/CD/hard drive, the Windows would not load because of a failure of the hard drive. As you can imagine I was somewhat alarmed. However by rearranging the boot priority to floppy/hard drive/cd everything worked normally and the Windows was loaded as usual. I am using Windows XP SP2, build 2600. I would like to use the CD as a a large collection of emergency boot resources but it is useless if it shuts down the hard drive. Can anyone explain this or suggest a work around? earflea Responses to this message: re: hiren's boot disc (Ricer46: Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 10:10 am) re: hiren's boot disc (Paulina: Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 10:24 am) All messages in this thread [show all] hiren's boot disc (earflea: Thu, Jul 14, 2005, 9:26 am) re: hiren's boot disc (Ricer46: Thu, Jul 14, 2005, 10:10 am) re: hiren's boot disc (Paulina: Thu, Jul 14, 2005, 10:24 am) re: hiren's boot disc (earflea: Fri, Jul 15, 2005, 11:20 am) 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 XP Discussion Forum