Boot Failure, Repair Failure!

[Drouin]

Hi all,

I've faced this problem before and now i'm facing it
again, by mistake i forgot one floppy diskette into drive
A: and shutdown my PC, when i turn the PC on again it
tried to boot from the floppy drive with message "replace
system disk" so i removed the disk and tried to boot from
my C-drive .... but it didn't boot at all and without
message ...

i tried repairing windows xp installation by using the
original CD but after repairing it restarts and again no
boot, only the cruser on the corning flashing !!

I don't want to do fresh copy of windows again cause i
don't want to installa all my programs again, by the way i
connected the Hard Disk to another PC as secondery Hard
drive and i had full access to my files, so anyone can
tell me how to fix this problem without re-formatting?

thanx alot,

Drouin

[BruceM]

What was on the floppy? Doesn't sound too good!!
While you had it on the other comp, did you do a GOOD virus test?
Did you put it back to master?
You might want to check the HIDDEN boot.ini while in other comp?
Read another thread by Victor Lam on 30/07/2003........ 4:26
BruceM

"Drouin" > wrote in message
...
> Hi all,
>
> I've faced this problem before and now i'm facing it
> again, by mistake i forgot one floppy diskette into drive
> A: and shutdown my PC, when i turn the PC on again it
> tried to boot from the floppy drive with message "replace
> system disk" so i removed the disk and tried to boot from
> my C-drive .... but it didn't boot at all and without
> message ...
>
> i tried repairing windows xp installation by using the
> original CD but after repairing it restarts and again no
> boot, only the cruser on the corning flashing !!
>
> I don't want to do fresh copy of windows again cause i
> don't want to installa all my programs again, by the way i
> connected the Hard Disk to another PC as secondery Hard
> drive and i had full access to my files, so anyone can
> tell me how to fix this problem without re-formatting?
>
> thanx alot,
>
> Drouin

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

This sounds like a classic boot sector virus, which has mucked up your
active partition boot sector. You can repair it using the XP Recovery
Console (or a partial repair using a DOS floppy).

Insert the XP CD and boot it. Select the first repair option and logon
to the Recovery Console. Run the commands "fixboot" and "fixmbr". Then
boot the hard drive.

If you only did a partial repair, then you likely have additional
problems to fix. Post back with more questions before you run off and
reinstall XP again. Get yourself a background AV scanner that can check
the boot sectors on your floppies, or else stop using floppies. They are
too dangerous if you are getting them from friends and not using an
anti-virus scanner.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"Drouin" > wrote in
message ...
> Hi all,
>
> I've faced this problem before and now i'm facing it
> again, by mistake i forgot one floppy diskette into drive
> A: and shutdown my PC, when i turn the PC on again it
> tried to boot from the floppy drive with message "replace
> system disk" so i removed the disk and tried to boot from
> my C-drive .... but it didn't boot at all and without
> message ...
>
> i tried repairing windows xp installation by using the
> original CD but after repairing it restarts and again no
> boot, only the cruser on the corning flashing !!
>
> I don't want to do fresh copy of windows again cause i
> don't want to installa all my programs again, by the way i
> connected the Hard Disk to another PC as secondery Hard
> drive and i had full access to my files, so anyone can
> tell me how to fix this problem without re-formatting?
>
> thanx alot,
>
> Drouin