Re: Only boots with CD in drive

From: IC (me_at_me.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:48:59 GMT

This, amongst other things has failed to make any difference. Any other
ideas? I'm very close to wiping the drive and trying again. 

-- 
Ian
"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:%2320IxxyGFHA.544@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Even though the text appears ok, there may be some corruption in the
> boot.ini file. Create a new one and overwrite the original.
>
> -- 
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "IC" <me@me.com> wrote in message
> news:9MDTd.377$905.261@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
> >I have just reinstalled Windows XP Pro (currently SP1) following a HDD
> > failure. The new 80 MB drive is partitioned as 20/60MB and Windows is
> > installed on the 20MB partition (drive C).
> >
> > My problem is that I get a "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and
> > press
> > enter" message. If I then put the XP installation CD in the drive and
> > press
> > enter, Windows will boot normally. I have tried using the Recovery
console
> > to run Fixboot and Fixmbr, but these have had no effect. The system is
> > obviously looking for some boot files on the CD rather than HDD, but I
> > don't
> > know why, or how to fix it.
> >
> > Boot.ini is looking to multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS which
> > seems OK, but obviously something isn't right.
> >
> > Any ideas will be much appreciated.
> >
> > -- 
> > Ian
> >
> >
>
>

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