Seek info about boot sequence

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I have an installation of Win2K which has been doing just fine until the
other day when it decided to not boot. On post, the disk gets to the
point of having listed the PCI assignments, then hangs at a blinking
cursor. The disk is recognized as the primary disk on POST and there
are no otherr disks in the system.

If I use a floppy that contains my boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com
files, the system boots. What I am wondering is whether there is
something that may have reset itself in the BIOS that I should check or
whether a boot sector on a disk can die and still the disk will be
functional once that is bypassed. (I have already gone through recovery
procedures to rebuild the boot sector a few times with the fixboot command.

Thanks
Ken K
 
Ken K said:
I have an installation of Win2K which has been doing just fine until the
other day when it decided to not boot. On post, the disk gets to the
point of having listed the PCI assignments, then hangs at a blinking
cursor. The disk is recognized as the primary disk on POST and there
are no otherr disks in the system.

If I use a floppy that contains my boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com
files, the system boots. What I am wondering is whether there is
something that may have reset itself in the BIOS that I should check or
whether a boot sector on a disk can die and still the disk will be
functional once that is bypassed. (I have already gone through recovery
procedures to rebuild the boot sector a few times with the fixboot command.

Thanks
Ken K
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What is the error message ?
Have a look at the MBR and its partition table. Also there's a command
fixmbr.
 
flekso said:
What is the error message ?
Have a look at the MBR and its partition table. Also there's a command
fixmbr.
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Here is where I am with the problem. I have used both the fixboot and
fixmbr commands without success. I can boot with a floppy disk so I
suspect that there is something irreparable with the boot sector UNLESS
there is something in the BIOS that has changed that does not direct
itself the boot sector. However, I think that I must resign myself to a
reinstall and hope that the boot sector, after formatting, works. The
only question I have is how can I get the same settings in the
registry. I have the registry backed up, so I will have to give it a go
unless I hear otherwise.

Thanks
KenK
 
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