Re: Only boots with CD in drive

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

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:15:44 GMT

Many thanks to everyone who offered suggestions to sort this problem. It's
now working OK, but I'm not exactly sure why. I suspect there was a problem
in the BIOS.

I checked the jumper settings. It came as CS but I had changed it to Master
(which was reflected in the BIOS) however, when I changed it back to CS, I
got a checksum error which reset the BIOS. I've been in and changed a couple
of things to how I like them and verything is working fine now. No idea what
the initial problem was, but I'm past caring :-)

Once again, thanks for the pointers. 

-- 
Ian
"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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