IBM PC reboot problem

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Hi,
I've a NetVista IBM pc (1 GHZ, 128MO), it has a problem (i don't know what
because someone gives it to me ), I decided to format and re-installe it.
- I used a professional XP CD (+sp2),
- I formatted it NTFS without problem
- The files copy wa sdone without problem.
- When it rebooted after, the pc can't start, it tries to start and then it
reboot...

- When I use a floopy disc (bootable), I can have the "A>" but when i ask
for "c:" I get the error message "Invalid drive specification"

When I open the bios I find the disc (40GO), the memory.... every thing look
good.

Any help please.
 
Hi,
I've a NetVista IBM pc (1 GHZ, 128MO), it has a problem (i don't know what
because someone gives it to me ), I decided to format and re-installe it.
- I used a professional XP CD (+sp2),
- I formatted it NTFS without problem
- The files copy wa sdone without problem.
- When it rebooted after, the pc can't start, it tries to start and then it
reboot...

- When I use a floopy disc (bootable), I can have the "A>" but when i ask
for "c:" I get the error message "Invalid drive specification"

When I open the bios I find the disc (40GO), the memory.... every thing look
good.

Any help please.
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What OS do you have on that bootable floppy?
Can you run FDISK to see if disk partition was created?
 
Well, Windows Millenium cannot see NTFS partitions.
That is probably why you don't see C: drive.
 
You misunderstood me.

When you creat a bootable diskette on Windows XP (using
Format | Create an MS-DOS starup disk), floppy generated
in this process will have Windows Millenium OS.

Now, when you boot your PC with that floppy, you wan't
be able to see any NTFS formatted partitions, because
Millenium does not support NTFS.
 
Peter said:
You misunderstood me.

When you creat a bootable diskette on Windows XP (using
Format | Create an MS-DOS startup disk), floppy generated
in this process will have Windows Millenium OS.
Click to expand...

That's odd given that it says "Create an MS-DOS startup disk".
 
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