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| 1374497 | 2014-05-09 01:28:00 | I rebooted a Windows XP computer with a usb flash drive plugged in and now the computer will only boot to "Plop Boot Manager"???? and won't let me get into Windows. any help would be appreciated. |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 1374498 | 2014-05-09 01:40:00 | www.plop.at | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1374499 | 2014-05-09 01:48:00 | Thank you Rod ~ although what I want it to bypass plop on the boot up |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 1374500 | 2014-05-09 02:06:00 | From the Plop documentation (www.plop.at): "2. Uninstall When you installed the boot manager to the MBR, then you can remove the boot manager in the same way that you used to install the boot manager, but you have to use the option 4 or 5 in the install program. When you don't want to use the install program to remove the boot manager, then you can use any other program that writes a new program to the MBR. Example FIXMBR, or "fdisk /mbr" and so on. Or you install another boot manager to the MBR." I suggest the bold text would be the easiest way to remove Plop if you don't have the Plop boot manager install CD. But you may still not be able to boot WinXP after doing that. |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1374501 | 2014-05-09 02:19:00 | Again Thank you Rod ~ 1] how did this get started when it wasn't visible before ~ before it would just boot to the hdd 2] when it boots to plop I only have 3 options: SETUP, ABOUT, SHUTDOWN ~ I was under the impression that it would allow me other boot options ie: hdd, cdrom.... 3] I changed the setting to allow CD boot, but it wont boot from the likes of Hirens or Seagate |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 1374502 | 2014-05-09 02:32:00 | If I pull the cmos battery & reset the bios would that clear the MBR and allow me to boot normally? |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 1374503 | 2014-05-09 02:50:00 | (1) Not sure, possibly you have only one OS installed so the boot manager didn't appear and it just booted to XP. Maybe your XP install is damaged in some way and that is why the boot manager is now showing up. (2) Have you tried the SETUP option to see if Plop can find the XP install? Maybe Plop itself is damaged and therefore just resetting the MBR might be the best way. (3) I don't know why. Removing the CMOS battery and resetting the BIOS will have NO effect on clearing the MBR. The MBR is on the first sector of your hard drive and isn't connected to the BIOS at all. |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1374504 | 2014-05-09 02:51:00 | What USB flash drive did you boot with? (in your first post). Did you install Plop from that? | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1374505 | 2014-05-09 03:00:00 | again thank you Rod J ~ much appreciated your support I thought I had it ~ I had the cmos battery out ~ put it back in ~ and the computer booted!! reboot though returns me to plop ~ bugger I didn't install plop the usb drive isn't bootable ~ it just a standard usb drive with files & programs I use (ie: antivirus installs....) |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 1374506 | 2014-05-09 03:02:00 | Or as it says here (www.plop.at) To remove the entry from the windows boot menu run the program c:\plop\plpbt4win. Use "l" to list all entries. Remove the entry with "r ID". ID is the number you have seen with "l". See here for more info's to plpbt4win. What version of plop is it? |
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