Re: boot problem
- From: noop <noop@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:25:09 +0200
Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
>
> "noop" <noop@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:42b5e862$0$313$ba620e4c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I'm coming to think that the bios cannot find the partition. Perhaps
> because
>> it's beyond the limitations of the old Bioses (the motherboard is from
> 2001
>> I think), and there isn't the option to access the drive in LBA mode.
>> I'll check that tomorrow.
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com),
> then run ntfsdos.exe (www.sysinternals.com) do check if your
> system partition is there and readable.
>
> Now format floppy disk #2 on some other WinXP/2000
> machine and take it to the problem PC while still under
> the Win98 boot. Type this command:
>
> type c:\boot.ini > a:\boot.ini.
>
> Now take floppy disk #2 back to your WinXP PC
> and copy these two files from the i386 folder of your
> WinXP CD to A:\ -
> - ntldr
> - ntdetect.com
>
> You have just manufactured a WinXP floppy boot disk.
> See what happens when you boot the problem PC
> with it.
Thanks I'll give it a try.
I brewed my own solution:
I made a new install of XP on the first partition.
In the boot.ini of this new install I added the option to boot the old
version (the one on partition two). The old version boots allright now, I
just had to swap the drive assignment in HLM\System\MountedDevices.
This solution seems a bit odd, but my friends/clients don't have the XP CDs
and I prefer that they work with the XP they paid for.
.
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