Boot Failure, Repair Failure!

  • Thread starter Thread starter Drouin
  • Start date Start date
D

Drouin

Hi all,

I've faced this problem before and now i'm facing it
again, by mistake i forgot one floppy diskette into drive
A: and shutdown my PC, when i turn the PC on again it
tried to boot from the floppy drive with message "replace
system disk" so i removed the disk and tried to boot from
my C-drive .... but it didn't boot at all and without
message ...

i tried repairing windows xp installation by using the
original CD but after repairing it restarts and again no
boot, only the cruser on the corning flashing !!

I don't want to do fresh copy of windows again cause i
don't want to installa all my programs again, by the way i
connected the Hard Disk to another PC as secondery Hard
drive and i had full access to my files, so anyone can
tell me how to fix this problem without re-formatting?

thanx alot,

Drouin
 
What was on the floppy? Doesn't sound too good!!
While you had it on the other comp, did you do a GOOD virus test?
Did you put it back to master?
You might want to check the HIDDEN boot.ini while in other comp?
Read another thread by Victor Lam on 30/07/2003........ 4:26
BruceM
 
Thanx guys !!!

and special thank to Kent :)

I'm really thankful for the help, it was all about a
boot-sector Virus called Eek(b)


Drouin
 
You're welcome. I hate those boot sector viruses. You can even get
infected when you shutdown your system with an infected floppy in the
drive.

I hope you installed an AV background scanner with boot sector virus
protection.

I am assuming that the Recovery Console helped you recover, or did you
rely on your chosen AV product to fix the boot sector problem? Thanks
for the feedback.
 
Back
Top