Re: Cannot Boot From Xp Disc

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i double checked my bios and from what i can tell all my settings are
correct. my bios is set for my cd-rom to be read first, followed by my hard
drive. I don't have a floppy. I will try the suggestion earlier about doing
system restore on my husbands laptop. My laptop is about 5 years old. The
hard drive that's in here is the second one that I purchased nearly 2 years
ago to increase storage. I'm running Windows
XP home SP 2. My virus scan software (Avast) is up to date and detected
nothing. I also ran my spyware program (ScanSpyware). They are both current
with their applicable updates. I haven't added any software or hardware to
it either.

"db" wrote:

have you double
checked your bios?
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"PAMMIEPOOH" <PAMMIEPOOH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:024043FA-A19D-4228-92A1-3A12B3EBED69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Okay here it goes...My laptop (Toshiba Satellite M45 S2652) started the
unmountable drive error. I am unable to go into safe mode & for some reason
am unable to boot from my Windows XP disk to go into RECOVERY MODE. At first
I thought maybe it was my hard drive, so i took it out and put it into my
husbands PIII, 512MB Toshiba. I put in my XP disc and voila! I was able to
access Recovery Mode, run chkdsk /r and boom xp was running like a charm.
However, when I put my hard drive back into MY laptop, I get the oxoooooo7b
error. I took my hard drive back out and put it in my husbands laptop and
installed recovery console on my hard drive as an option to boot on startup.
Then I put my hard drive back into my laptop and boot into recovery console
from it. Then I switch to my D:\ drive to try and run setup, winnt and all to
no avail. THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

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