OMG I'm SOO STUPID PLEASE HELP ME

[NEWBIE777]

I can't believe I did this but I was working on my computer I have had win98/win2k dual boot for 3 months now and I decided to just stick with win2k. I had problems for the past 3 days getting rid of 98 I tried fdisk, format from 2k side and yesterday I finally got fdisk to work BUT I didn't format the c: drive before I rebooted computer.!! OMG
ok c: and d: are one hard drive c partition is 15 gig with win98 and d partition is 15 gig with win2k but of course c: is the active partition. Now all I get is "searching for boot record from Ide-0..OK" and it stays there.
I tried boot disk wont work it doesn't go that far.
PLEASE tell me how to fix this.

amd 1000Mhz computer dvd,cd-rom,128mb ram,30 gig HD
Thanks in advance

 

[ngagne]

The most likely reason you can't get to the boot disk is because of the boot device priority in BIOS. Change the BIOS setting to be something like Floppy/HD/CDROM, then boot the system from the floppy and see if that works. Post your results back here... Nate Gagne
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[hotfusion]

After checking that the floppy is the priority boot device, maybe you'll have to go to fdisk and set D: to be bootable. My suggestions are what I would try myself. If incorrect, I welcome corrections to my rather limited knowledge. Andy.

 

[NEWBIE777]

Hmm ok I stayed up late last night formatting a 10 gig hard-drive with win98 and i added it to the computer as master but then i fell asleep so I'm gonna boot now and I will check out the bios If i can get in someone set a password on it because that was the first thing i tried I called the guy who made my computer and i'm waiting for him to call me back. i'l respond again after i boot the computer. Thx

 

[cschaffer]

I think what happened is when you formated 'c' you got rid of the boot record...I would think all you can do is boot up with a floppy...reinstall 98 or 2000 onto the c drive...after which you will tehn be able to view the contents on your d drive once again....then backup important files and do one more final fdisk/format and reinstall 98/2000! ...this is what I would do.....

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[NEWBIE777]

ok weird its still doing the same thing "searching for boot record from IDE-0..Ok"

and i went to the bios but its weird looking only 3 options which are user password,save & exit setup, and exit without saving. amibios setup utility version 1.23???
This isnt the bios is it?

 

[NEWBIE777]

cshaffer It wont boot to disk I tried booting from disk,or cdrom drive now i have another problem I accessed that setup but couldnt get into the bios and so i kept re-booting and i got tired of typing in password so i removed password it asked for new password i hit spacebar and now I'm really locked out CRAP well I can't get other hard-drive to boot either. What will happen if i remove the battery that will clear the bios password right? but what other settings will it erase that i will have to set back up???? Also why won't it boot from other hard-drive???
OMG its getting worse!!!

 

[cschaffer]

WOW....before you blow something up...or lock yourself out of your house (or office).....then things would be getting weird.....what password did you change?
we will start with that question



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[NEWBIE777]

UMMMM dude have you read my problems? i changed bios PW not to be ignorant because i need all the help i can get but ...

 

[ngagne]

Step 1: Clear CMOS with jumper or DIP switch on motherboard.

Step 2: There must be a setting somewhere in the BIOS for boot device priority. Trust me. Change it to Floppy first.

Step 3: Boot from floppy disk.

Step 4: At the a:\ prompt, type

fdisk /mbr

Step 5: Remove floppy and reboot.

Step 6: If steps 1-5 did not solve your problems, continue to step 7.

Step 7: Boot from floppy disk again, at a:\ prompt type

fdisk

. In fdisk, make your "D" partition primary and active. Quit fdisk.

Step 8: Remove floppy and reboot. If things don't work from here, post again. Nate Gagne
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[cschaffer]

......k good...the bios password...I don't think that taking out the battery will remove the password.....
but you can try...we need to get you into a bootable state here....you need to fdisk d00d and format...you have seriously corrupted the HD's file structure when you where fdisking and what not....try just entering a space for the password???

let me know....we can get this figured out!

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[NEWBIE777]

Thanks alot ngagne I got it booting now with my extra hd lol I was having issues with hd jumpers but now im in and formatting the c: drive on the hard-drive i messed up. Thanks hotfusion also . And mr schaffer i got two thing to tell you 1. You aren't funny and you arent any help at all!
2. If i lock myself out of my house today ITS YOUR FAULT!

Ok now ngagne I'm formatting the problem drive now so that will fix that but to clear bios i understand i need to remove battery. About how long should i leave it out and also when i went there originally it wasnt the bios that i've seen before it was some kinda weird setup utility. SO once i go back there how can i get the real bios?

its weird looking only 3 options which are
1.user password
2.save & exit setup
3.exit without saving.
amibios setup utility version 1.23???
This isnt the bios is it?
i tried holding f1-f12 and even ctrl+shift+s but del is only key to access setup which brings up only those 3 options. Thanx alot

 

[ngagne]

There should be a jumper or switch on your motherboard to clear the BIOS password. Nate Gagne
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[cschaffer]

NEWBIE777 k....you told me.....
your the man i guess!!
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[ngagne]

Let's not turn this into a flame war...

NEWBIE, cschaffer was trying to help - notice the in his posts?

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[NEWBIE777]

Sorry ngagne but if u look at his posts it didnt appear helpful smileys or not first response he said was use a boot disk which i already said i tried second response was what pw i changed. lets see if i can't boot up and im talking about bios....lol ok im done

jumpers huh I only see one set of jumpers and there are 5 on it..

ok format done however I can boot to dos with disk but not win2k. this is a seperate issue from the bios correct?
uggg

 

[NEWBIE777]

ntldr is missing i set active partition

 

[ngagne]

Uh-oh - that's not good. Last time that happened to me, I had to reload 2k. Maybe someone else knows another way around it? Nate Gagne
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[cschaffer]

Like I said before.....he needs to fidsk these partitions/ reformat..it is to bad but there is no way around this ......wish I could be of more help.....

asking you those questions helps me to narrow down specific problems that are know to cause probs...so if I asked questions, it was just to claify my understanding of the prob.....missing ntldr means that a fat32 is trying to boot up a NTFS system....or maybe even that you might have a disk in the floppy?? Just look there before you format the drive! This is a common solution to that error!

CS

 

[NEWBIE777]

so far then the only solution is to erase everthing I have saved on the win2k partition and reformat it and re-install win2k? Could i maybe install 2k on a empty partition like the d drive i just formatted to then somehow switch it to boot from my old partition? I have alot of files loaded on win2k and hope that would be my last resort. Also dont know if this makes a difference but I don't recall formatting the win2k partition as ntfs i did the fat32. Thx