Re: XP Will not boot. Underscore blinks on the screen.

Are *both* of your computers not booting or is there only one not booting? The most common cause for a boot making it past the POST but then immediately hanging with a blinking cursor at the upper top left corner is that there is no active partition on the hard disk. You can use a Windows 98 boot disk and Fdisk to check the active status of the partition or you should be able to boot the hard disk by using your Windows XP cd, once booted you can use the Disk Management tool to check the active status of the partition.

John

Al Can Help wrote:
I woke up this morning to two computers that had been restarted. I've had a problem with startup hanging on being unable to boot from A drive please press F1 to continue. That was on my screen. I've checked the boot sequence but that's another story. Once past that all I'm getting is a blinking cursor. I've tried rebooting without success. it does allow me to check my settings (pressing delete). It does not allow me to start in the safe mode (pressing f8). I'm running XP SP2, MSI with Intel Dual Core. I haven't made any hardware or software changes. I'm wondering if there is a virus? I did run a quick scan just yesterday afternoon.
Thanks

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