re: hiren's boot disc
Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 10:10 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23824 messages posted)
Your Windows CD is your emergency boot disk. Booting to DOS, does no good at all
if your C:\ drive is NTFS.
On Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 9:26 am, earflea wrote:
>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
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- hiren's boot disc (earflea: Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 9:26 am)
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