Boot Disk Failure HELP

[CatahoulaHound]

My XP-Pro box gave me a "BOOT DISK FAILURE" msg. this morning and I've been trying to repair. I booted from XP CD and went into repair console. There I copied files from "\repair" into "\config" folder and restarted. I got the same msg.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Should I try to repair the boot from repair console? This is my first attempt at using the repair console.
I’ve not installed any new h/w or s/w recently.

Thanks So Much
Pat

 

[TamedTech]

I would give the Repair Boot thing from the windows disk a go ... also Run CHKDSK on the HDD to check for any corruption.

Thanks,

Rob

 

[CatahoulaHound]

TamedTech, thanks for the reply. I'm going to try the repair boot, nothing to loose I suppose. I did run chkdsk and it reported no problems.

Pat

 

[rvnguy]

CatahoulaHound.

You could try to repair the MBR on the drive by using the "fixmbr" cmd in the console. Yous can also try "chkdsk /p" to locate anomalies & fix. and others. They are listed with instructions on use in the following link:

Recovery Console

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q307654/

Hope This Helps


rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[CatahoulaHound]

Well, as it turns out, nothing worked. Had to reformat drive and start over. I really sort of knew it when I started here but thought I would as just the same. Thanks to all that viewed and helped.

Pat