I was finally able to get into Recovery Console. Performed fixboot and fixmbr. checked boot.ini with rd command. scanned drive with bootcfg /scan and this found the OS. figured I had it licked. Went to reboot and system still can't fint ntldr!!!
I'm hoping I don't have to reinstall
Andre
Hey wolluf
That link was great. So far it seems to be just what I needed. I should be able to get to the Recovery Console from there. Once there I will try to fix this machine. I'll keep you posted.
Andre
wolluf, I used a ME startup disk which gave me CDrom support. But I can't start setup with is. I get the message that this program can't run in Dos mode??? How do I run setup from Dos
Thanks
Andre
I have the recover console installed. When I choose it, still from the floppy boot disk, I get a missing or corrupted hal.dll. When I choose xp pro it boots. I have a setup disk that is for my laptop. It doesn't load because it's from another computer. But it should spit me out to DOS with CDrom...
The XP disk will boot in my other computer. As to not booting from hdd. Boot.ini is the same for the floppy and the root on hdd. It's like it's not reading the mbr on the hdd. When I boot with the floppy in it'll boot to xp ok.
Tommorrow I will try to download those floppy startups. need some...
Hey everybody maybe some has some ideas.
had the ntldr missing problem. copied ntldr, ntdetect and boot.ini to floppy. copied to root. system will boot from floppy but not from HD. Also willnot boot from xps CD but will boot from other CD's such as linux and original gateway.
???????
Thanks
I have tried a second video card. Problem is intermittent. I put the mem sticks in another computer and ran for a couple of weeks and also ran a memory test on it. Mainly now the computer locks up shortly after starting
Dre
I own a HP Pavilion Laptop. I am having a problem with power plug. I am not sure if it is the female end or male but if you wiggle it just right the computer will stay on. If you move the connector it sends a spike and cuts out the video. I have removed all the screws which are visible and can...
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I installed xp prof. It formatted the drive as Ntfs with no choice in the setup. Every time I reboot it kick me to the set up. The setup program shows the partition with an OS on it. But upon POST I noticed that it isn't see the drive. So it boils down to the setup can see it yet the bios can't...
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