Try booting up using the XP CD-ROM and choose to repair. Then choose the
Recovery Console Option...
Choose the number corresponding to your XP version and enter your
Administrator Password (then press enter).
After that you'll see a command prompt...enter the following command:
bootcfg /rebuild" command to fix boot.ini.
**** FIXBOOT will fix the boot sector on the boot drive,
FIXMBR will fix the master boot record if the NT loader
complains of a missing HAL or unmountable boot volume.
After the process is completed enter the command EXIT to quit (and the
system should auto reboot OK from that point onwards...
peter
steve spin said:
when I boot up i get as far as "searching for boot record from IDE-0,,ok" this
is as far as it will go. I dont want to reformat as all my emais and stuff are
on there. it only happened today. I have tried to do a repair which went ok, but
then would not go past searching for boot record etc. Help!!!!!! what can I
do??
