Re: Bootit NG mistery BOOT FAILURE...needs to boot from its floppy at startup?

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Ron Sommer

<swimmydeepo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am just experimenting with Bootit NG and managed to install a few
> partitions including 2 XPs on NTFS, 1 XP on FAT32, and Win98 on FAT32
> plus 2 extra partitions for Backups and Images.
> Things seemed to going very smooth as I was able to switch from one OS
> to the other without any problem. Each booted OS showed on C: drive
> with only the data partition visible (Backups and Images).
> I shut down the system for a break and then a few minutes later, after
> switching the system back on, I was presented with the message: DISK
> BOOT FAILURE....INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.
> I decided to press enter while the Bootit NG floppy was still inside
> the drive and I was able to enter the Bootit NG environment...from
> there I wasn't able to view my partitions, then,after clicking that
> Reboot icon in Bootit NG, things returned as they were before I'd
> switched off the computer.
>
> So things are returned fine after all. Except that I have to remember
> to use that NG floppy anytime I turn ON the computer (simple Restarts
> or reboots are just fine).
>
> Now it looks to me that something is happening when I switch off the
> PC; perhaps the MBR is wrongly deleted or corrupted or else the BIOS
> skips the HD on switching ON as it tries to access the CD Drive and
> then the Floppy for booting information.
>
> To be fair, I've taken a couple of disgressive steps while messing
> about with NG. For example I didn't realized that NG doesn't format
> NTFS partitions (it only prepares them...that's why it was so fast!)
> and that once decided to opt for more than 4 primaries I should have
> done without other partitioning programs...instead I used Acronis Suite
> to create the 2 data volumes inside an Extended partition.
>
> Can anyone solve this mistery?
>
> Alex
>


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