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| Thread ID: 52192 | 2004-12-12 09:49:00 | Disk Controller Failure | bubbyboy (2181) | Press F1 |
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| 302339 | 2004-12-12 23:46:00 | Well, maybe the IDE controller has failed coincidently, it is not an unknown thing to happen. But have you checked that the hdd is listed as one of the boot devices in BIOS, as Spacemannz asked? |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 302340 | 2004-12-13 00:06:00 | I can"t even get to the bios to check. | bubbyboy (2181) | ||
| 302341 | 2004-12-13 00:13:00 | Try pressing Esc / F1 / F2, Delete key, or F10 as soon as the system boots Did u try any of these keys?? It should say Press one of the above keys on the bootup screen, on post |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 302342 | 2004-12-13 00:37:00 | f1 to reboot f10 to load the setup menu, which after trying to reset to defaults still causes the same problems |
bubbyboy (2181) | ||
| 302343 | 2004-12-13 00:58:00 | You need to add your 98 hard drive to the boot devices list, I doubt it would work though because the MBR won't like something booting without it's say so. If you want to throw another OS on a computer with an existing OS you need to add it to XP's boot.ini file or use a boot loader |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 302344 | 2004-12-13 01:00:00 | Another thing is, it's generally accepted practice to install the older OS first, not last. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 302345 | 2004-12-13 01:27:00 | Nothing to do with dual booting. Drive was temporarily in an XP system as a slave now won't work as a boot drive in original pc. Drive can be seen from a boot disk. I would still try the command " fdisk /mbr " (without quotes) after booting from a floppy. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 302346 | 2004-12-13 05:36:00 | ok heres the story as at 6:34pm I've been able to reinstall the win98 and it will boot from that. It has created a directory windows.0000 to do it. however it has run into so many more errors but it will boot up. From talking to a couple of people it appears that the master boot record has either been corrupted or has been erased somehow. The original windows directory is still there, just that it won't boot into that one. |
bubbyboy (2181) | ||
| 302347 | 2004-12-13 06:29:00 | Did you even read the link provided? | PaulD (232) | ||
| 302348 | 2004-12-13 07:35:00 | If he did, I seriously think he might not have had to reinstall Windows. Now you're in trouble bubbleboy, I doubt many apps will like Windows not being in \WINDOWS. You should have killed your old Windows folder first, or even better, listened to Pauls suggestion! You could *try* renaming it to Windows, but I doubt Windows would like that. Might just have to install yet again. |
george12 (7) | ||
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