Re: PLEASE HELP ME
- From: "Courtney" <a@xxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:26:33 -0500
Surprisingly, your problem is relatively easy to fix.
You are correct; the DMI (Device Management Interface) pool will come up
normally and has nothing to do with Windows until XP actually boots up.
That's your motherboard enumerating all the devices attached to it.
To repair XP, boot from the CD. Skip the Recovery Console. Continue as if
you are about to reformat. Select to install. The CD will find a previous
install of the operating system and offer to repair it. Choose that. It will
reinstall the three files to boot XP. (Actually, you are only missing one
file, but it points to ntloader and boot.ini.)
courtney sends....
"DanielWalters6" <DanielWalters6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5C860F54-D19F-4889-BD26-39981FAEB395@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dear Readers I am writing to you as a last hope of saving my fairly new
> computer from physically being thrown out of the house by my mother.
>
> I have recently had a problem with my Windows XP user accounts. These
> included only accounts with Administrator priveleges beign allowed to log
> on.
>
> Due to a message that said "Access denied" when trying to log into the
> guest
> account, I figured that if I started in SAFE MODE, and went into the
> security
> tab of the properties menu of the Hard Drive (c:) and added indavidually
> each
> username into the security window and allowed full access on all accounts
> I
> would not have the problem.
>
> In doing so, I believe I removed some of the Users that had access to the
> hard drive. (these users were strings of numbers eg.
> 122334123423-43424234234-424234234 which had no meaning to me.)
>
> I believe that they may have something to do with the initial boot-up of
> my
> pc.
> No when I try turning on my computer I get the following message:
>
> =====================
> Verifying DMI Pool Data.........
> Boot from CD: Failure ...
> Boot from CD: Failure ...
>
> NTLDR is missing
> Press Ctrl+alt+Del to restart
> =====================
> I believe the Verifying DMI pool data to be standard text that is
> displayed
> during loadup.
> The TWO boot From CD's are pretty standard as I have always had them
> displayed, just before the operating system (windows xp) has loaded up.
> (Two
> messages, I can only presume because I have two CD drives).
>
> NTLDR is missing - is obviously the message that is abnormal. I can only
> do
> two things from here. I can press Ctrl+Alt+Del and it will repeat the
> process. And I can Print Screen (Which physically prints out what I can
> see)
>
> I believed that I could possibly retify the problem by loading up in SAFE
> MODE, but Safe mode is loaded up by pressing F8 at a later time to what I
> get
> this message.
>
> As a last resort I thourght that I could use the system recovery disk to
> completely restart from scratch (lose all personal data/files etc.) On
> inserting the disk and re-booting.
>
> When it comes to the second BOOT FROM CD. I then get the option of
> Pressing
> "R" to start recovery. On pressing this a bit of "whurring" comes out of
> my
> tower, and after about twenty seconds I get the system recovery screen
> load
> up.
>
> Normally when I do a system recovery I get the option on what type of
> recovery I would like to perform, eg. destructive etc. but that is now
> not
> an option. It just goes straight to the second option where it gives me
> the
> option of :
>
> =====================================
> Format and Recover:-
>
> All files, including data files, on the user patition will be lost and the
> original factory-shipped fiels will be recovered to the user partition.
>
> do you want to continue?
> =====================================
> When clicking OK (the only option availible, I can;t close box in top
> right
> hand corner)
> I get the following message box appear.
>
> Cannot format user partition!
> System recovery cannot continue!
>
> When clicking okay, it restarts the computer again.
>
> I would like it someone was able to tell me how to replace the obvious
> missing NT Loader files etc.
>
> Obviously I am without a extremely expensive (two and a bit yrs ago)
> computer.
>
> Thank you for all your time.
>
> If you have any advice pelase contact me by replying to this message, or
> e-mailing me direrctly,
>
> danielwalters6@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Thank's once again
>
>
> Daniel Walters
>
.
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