re: PC has stopped working
Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 8:33 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by glenn
(100 messages posted)
Will the 9x boot disk work if it is made on a PC with a Linux OS? (It's what my neighbour
has got.)
On Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 7:43 am, Larry wrote:
>
>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
>
>
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