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Hi Dave

This is Geri's brother, Jack.

Booting to windows I get a Boot disk failier if the windows xp disk is not in my disk drive.

I'm using windows xp professional.

I have trend micro and i cant get it to work.



can you help me, please

Jack

 

Hi Jack,

Make sure you have hidden files and folders showing, then check for the existence of the following files.

C:\ntldr
C:\ntdetect.com
C:\boot.ini

 

Hi Dave
I have ntldr and ntdetect, but i dont have boot.ini.
i do have boot and bootsect.

Thanks
Jack

 

Open Local Disc C: and click Tools>Folder Options on the toolbar.
Select the View tab.
Scroll down and uncheck 'Hide extensions for known file types' then click OK.
Do you see boot.ini now?

 

Hi Dave

i did what you said and yes now i can see boot.ini.
is there something i need to do with it???

Thanks,
Jack

 

Hey Dave,

here is what my boot.ini says when i open it in notepad

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


Jack

 

Either install the Recovery Console then reboot to it, or boot to the Recovery Console using your XP cd and logon to the installed operating system. At the C:\Windows> command prompt, type fixboot and hit enter. Type Exit then hit enter and remove the disk upon restart to see if the computer will boot normally.

If it still does not boot, return to the Recovery Console and this time type chkdsk /r at the command prompt.

 

Thanks Dave

I'll try this and let you know if it works...

Thanks again,

Jack

 

Hey Dave

I tried both of those methods and I still get a Disk Boot Failier...


I ran FIXMBR and it said
"This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid Master Boot Record "

I said "no" when it asked if I wanted to write a new MBR.
Should I try to write a new MBR???

Jack

 

Hey Dave,

It is working now???
I defraged my drive and turned off my computer for a day and when I turned it back on it booted up. Thanks for your help.

Jack

 

Hi Jack,

Sorry about the late reply.

Odd that it's working properly again after a mere defrag, but hey, I'm happy for ya!

If the same behavior should happen to return, run the fixboot command again and answer Yes.