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Hi
I have an old pc with a 80 GB disk, wich was working ok with a 10 GB win2k partition ant the rest was free
Once I needed the free space so I created (tryed) a partition from all that free space. Something went wrong
The machine crashed. I had to restart it the hard way. The computer doesn't boot any more. The disk is set as a
Secondary master. I have some board problems, and when I try to set it in the primary IDE channel, it takes to lon
to recognise the disk. So the board may not be 100%
I've tryed the emergency boot from win2k pro cd, fixmr, fixboot, fdisk /mbr but still it can't boot, but I can see the data on the disk
How can I get the pc to boot
thanks
dave
 
try pqmagic
david carvalho said:
Hi !
I have an old pc with a 80 GB disk, wich was working ok with a 10 GB win2k
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partition ant the rest was free.
Once I needed the free space so I created (tryed) a partition from all
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that free space. Something went wrong.
The machine crashed. I had to restart it the hard way. The computer
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doesn't boot any more. The disk is set as a
Secondary master. I have some board problems, and when I try to set it in
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the primary IDE channel, it takes to long
to recognise the disk. So the board may not be 100%.
I've tryed the emergency boot from win2k pro cd, fixmr, fixboot, fdisk
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/mbr but still it can't boot, but I can see the data on the disk.
 
Hi
I don't have an emergency repair diskette, so I boo from cd into rescue mode. I also tryed automatic rescu
a few times, but without result
The message: " Disk Boot Failure, insert system disk and press enter

thanks
david
 
That is an error message from the BIOS indicating that you do not have a
hard-drive drive with an operating system on it. If the hard-drive
died a "rescue" disk won't resurrect it.
 
This could mean that either a boot drive was not detected or the drive does
not contain proper system boot files. If you can see the data, the former is
not an issue. What is it, FAT32?
Re-check BIOS settings and disable Boot sector protection. Run antivirus
scan (optional).
Boot into RecoveryConsole, and run 'map'. According to the partition table,
issue 'fixmbr \device\harddisk?' and/or 'fixboot C:' commands. Run chkdsk
(optional).
Create a W2k boot diskette with ntldr, ntdetect.com, boot.ini, and
ntbootdd.sys (if you have SCSI disk) files. You can copy boot.ini from your
HDD or create the new one similar to
**********
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="I'm tired" /fastdetect
***************************************************
Modify the boot.ini file to point to the correct hard disk controller and to
the correct volume for your Windows installation. Boot from this floppy
diskette. If the system boots, copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini files
from the diskette to the system partition.
Put HDD into another computer to exclude the motherboard malfunction.
 
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