Re: boot.ini experts?

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

From: Ron Patterson (a.baba_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 04:23:06 GMT

Thanking you all for your fine efforts, however immediate needs forced me to
re-install Win XP Pro - which solved the second problem. No one addressed
the first problem which is still with me.

> But now when I boot up, after the 'memory check' I get a black screen that
> says:
>
> Invalid system disk
> Replace disk, and then hit any key

Anyone wanna tackle this one please?

Ron

"Ron Patterson" <a.baba@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:dwQ_b.6737$yZ1.623@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> First Posting::
> I played where I should not have. I was trying to copy my
> existing Master HD to a new 'slave' HD and in the process messed something
> up.
>
> I reconfigured back to original configuration of just one Master HD on the
> Primary ribbon and one Master CD on the Secondary ribbon - (all with
correct
> jumpers)
> But now when I boot up, after the 'memory check' I get a black screen that
> says:
>
> Invalid system disk
> Replace disk, and then hit any key
>
> When I hit a key I get a screen that says:
>
> Select Operating System
> Windows XP Pro
> Windows XP Pro (#1)
> ...Select a system and click Enter to boot ......
>
> If I select the first it boots normally.
> If I select the second it says:
>
> Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration
> problem
> Could not read from the selected disk. Check boot path and disk
hardware.
>
> How can I get back to normal where it boots normally without this screen.
I
> have no
> idea what Win XP #1 is or where it came from. Can I find Win XP #1 and
> eliminate it?
>
> Second Follow-up Posting:
> Ok - some progress? Via msconfig I found the second boot path (Win XP #1)
> in the boot.ini - when I clicked on some tab there about op systems it
> told me that the 2nd boot path Win XP #1 was invalid and asked me if I
> wanted to delete it. YES!! WOW - thot I fixed it. But now when it
boots
> it still boots to the
> "Invalid system disk....................." screen and when I click any key
> it boots normally without the second screen anymore asking me to select an
> op system.
>
> BUT, after boot up I get a new screen saying I have booted in Diagnostic
or
> Selective Startup mode and to choose normal. If I go back to
> msconfig\boot.ini and choose normal, it puts the win xp #1 line back in as
a
> 2nd startup path and I am back where I started.
>
> How can I purge the computer of this path and still boot normally. And I
> still have the issue of "invalid system disk" to solve.
>
> Ron Patterson
>
>
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