"Invalid boot disk" error

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Todd Leinss

I'm an IT technician new to the field and am experiencing
an error message on our company machines that I hope
someone out there has seen before. This seems to be
happening to our Gateway machines only. Upon boot up, the
screen will go black and the following message will
appear:

"Invalid boot disk error, Retry, Ignore, Abort."

After several rebootings the system will start up and
Windows will load normally. However, on some occasions
there is no way around the error except to re-image the
hard drive and start fresh. Does anyone know what this
means? I have seen nothing on this subject and this
problem has become quite an irritation. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
Try booting to the recovery console with W2K CD and running the fixmbr
command.

Can you feed us a few details about what you use to image the drives?
ghosting utility with version? Is image syspreped with sysprep 1.1 and
specifically created for that exact motherboard model? What file system is
W2K using? If FAT32, is partition larger than 32 Gigs? Does motherboard
support the installed drive size? Example: OS is ntfs, HD is > 137 Gigs but
Bios doesn't support 48 bit LBA.
etc...

Otherwise, until proven wrong, i'm thinking: Virus.
 
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