Need Original XP pro CD in drive to boot

[ltilbrook]

I installed xp pro on my parents computer and for some reason or another they decided it wasnt good enough and reinstalled it themself when i wasnt their, now for some odd reason if they dont have the original xp cd in the drive at boot up it will crash to a blue screen or reboot.
i thought the boot sector mite br corrupt i tried running a chkdsk to fix that but no errors reported i installed SP1 still no change, i noticed that they had converted the drive to ntfs for some unknown reason aswell. Also when ur in windows and try to run certain programs it will blue screen if the orig win cd isnt in it. With ntfs on it i dont even know how to get to dos and do a sys on it.
has anyone encounted this problem before as i cant find anything around on this subject

 

[Marcs41]

You cannot 'sys' an XP installation, I wish it were that simple.
But I have no clue on how they managed to installed and still require the CD to be in there.
Save yourselve a headache and reinstall it yourself again. If the solution is here, let us know it was helpful so others can benefit from it as too

 

[XPisfree]

Me thinking about how XP needs that 8MB dead-space on the active disk (why?) or it will crash. Seems it might be being bypassed by the CD boot action in some install patch reference link that's persisted in the administrator's own user temp folder made during installation? Clean out Administrator's personal folders and temp install folders. XP is full of mini coding that's set to terminate when tampered. They don't want you pulling out all the useless WAN services.

 

[Marcs41]

XPisfree, what are you talking about?
Are you in the wrong posts or what?
I noticed you giving totally irrelevant and confusing replies in other posts too??? If the solution is here, let us know it was helpful so others can benefit from it as too

 

[tlcscousin]

From a different site that shows this as the fix.
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Try booting up using the XP CD-ROM and choose to repair. Then choose the
Recovery Console Option...
Choose the number corresponding to your XP version and enter your
Administrator Password (then press enter).

After that you'll see a command prompt...enter the following command:

bootcfg /rebuild" command to fix boot.ini.
** FIXBOOT will fix the boot sector on the boot drive, **
FIXMBR will fix the master boot record if the NT loader
complains of a missing HAL or unmountable boot
volume.



After the process is completed enter the command EXIT to quit (and the
system should auto reboot OK from that point onwards...