re: PC has stopped working
Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 7:43 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(150 messages posted)
You can get a copy of a 9x boot disk from:
http://www.bootdisk.com/
You download the image files to create the bootdisk. As for getting into the BIOS,
depending on the manufacturer, there are keys to press that will open the BIOS setup
for you: the usual suspects are "Delete," "F1," or "F2."
If it is not a hardware problem, it is possible that the floppy disk corrupted your
boot data on the hard drive. In that case, you can do a repair of the boot sector
with your WinXP CD.
Here are those procedures:
You will need to boot up with your WinXP CD and follow these steps:
Choose the 'Repair' an existing installation.
You will be asked to choose which windows installation you want to repair.
Choose the your XP installation.
Type in your Administrator password.
Follow these steps:
1) Type FIXBOOT, answer (Y)es
2) CD \, press enter.(this takes you to the root drive)
Type and enter these commands one at a time:
3) ATTRIB -H NTLDR
4) ATTRIB -S NTLDR
5) ATTRIB -R NTLDR
6) ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
7) ATTRIB -S NTDETECT.COM
8) ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
In steps 9 and 10, X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive.
9) COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
10) COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
Answer yes each time the computer asks to overwrite the existing file. Type EXIT
to close the Repair Console and reboot your computer.
Hope this helps
On Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 7:25 am, glenn wrote:
>Hi Ricer46 and thanks for your help.
>I had no idea my daughter was going to start again with diskettes. Wish she had
told
>me!
>Well, I don't know what that floppy is you are referring to but am pretty sure I
>don't have one.
>I also don't have any idea how to begin getting into the BIOS, but am prepared to
>have a go if you can give me some help with it and what I should do when I get there.
>(I read in a forum that there is a way of maybe getting out of the problem by booting
>up, hitting F2 (?)and telling you computer that you don't have a hard disk Does
that
>mean anything to you?)
>
>
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