Techie Help Needed - Please

Browntoa

Boot up with the
WinXP CD and get to the Repair Console(follow the instructions on the screen). Follow
these steps once you get to the Repair Console:

1) Type FIXBOOT, enter & answer (Y)es to overwrite/create mbr.
2) Type CD \ press enter to get to the root drive.

Type and enter these commands one at a time:

3) ATTRIB -H -S -R NTLDR
4) ATTRIB -H -S -R NTDETECT.COM

X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive

5) COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
6) COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\

Type EXIT to leave the Repair Console and reboot. These steps should repair the mbr
and detect all O/S on the computer.

Browntoa

just doing steps 5 and 6 on their own may get it to boot

donfanatico

Browntoa, nice!

surfergirl_3

UPDATE[/U

Browntoa,

Tried your suggestion re trying to boot from Windows XP disc, unfortunately it cant see the drive. Looks like it can only see the floppy drive.

Thanks for your help anyway, looks like we may have to replace the hard drive and start again.


Cheers,

Surfergirl

albertross_2

do you mean it can't see the CD drive, or the hard disk? If the former, change the boot order in the bios, put the CD drive above the hard disk

on some machines, pressing F12 at boot give you a boot menu to boot from CD

surfergirl_3

Message says cannot find drive C. Sorry i didn't make it clearer, but am relaying info from hubby. :rolleyes:

Will try your suggestion of pressing F12 at start up.

Cheers

Surfergirl

albertross_2

has the drive been moved, is the cable seated in it properly, if it came from a different PC, are the jumpers set correctly (cable select/master/slave), is it spinning?

surfergirl_3

Yes its spinning, and i think every thing else is ok.

Unit hasn't been moved, although it may be very soon, if you get my meaning.Hubby getting more fed up by the day.

All started from trying to combine drives which had previously been partitioned.See my earlier posts for full details, your help is appreciated.


Cheers Surfergirl :beer:

albertross_2

so are you unable to boot at all now, and don't even get a blue screen.. if so, check all the leads are firmly in the disk drive

surfergirl_3

Update


Hi guys,

Latest installment of Pc saga.

Thanks to advice already received from you guys, we can now boot from the XP cd having repaired boot sector, i think?

Now on start up message displayed is NTLDR FILE MISSING. :rolleyes:

All help gratefully received, think its off the critical list, but still in need of treatment.


Cheers :beer:


Surfergirl