Forum Home
Press F1
 
Thread ID: 49473 2004-09-20 08:09:00 Couldn't open drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) - Help by morning? Chilling_Silence (9) Press F1
Post ID Timestamp Content User
274081 2004-09-20 08:09:00 Ive just setup a PC with WinXP (Was Win98 but they purchased WinXP Home OEM), only its been coming up with:
Couldn't open drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
NTLDR: Couldn't open drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)

Only I hit Enter and it resets, goes through the POST again, and loads WinXP fine?!

Any ideas?

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
274082 2004-09-20 08:14:00 Can we charge "labor" ??

Hehe ;)

Lo.
Lohsing (219)
274083 2004-09-20 08:20:00 Try booting into the Recovery Console and running fixmbr and fixboot... wintertide (1306)
274084 2004-09-20 08:36:00 I would....

But the PC wont boot from CD-Rom.....

Cant boot from Floppy coz their Floppy is Dead, and the case is pop-riveted.... :-(

Any other ideas?
Chilling_Silence (9)
274085 2004-09-20 08:44:00 drill out the rivets BootyLicious (526)
274086 2004-09-20 08:47:00 > Cant boot from Floppy coz their Floppy is Dead, and
> the case is pop-riveted.... :-(

What manufacturer would pop-rivet shut a case?! :O

Are you sure the screws aren't located behind a pop-off removable case front panel?
Jen C (20)
274087 2004-09-20 08:47:00 Drill out the rivets, replace with screws (small 5 or 6g self tapers if necessary).

So, your not getting NTLDR is missing amongst that lot?

Once in boot from floppy and fixmbr or fdiskmbr, once in edit the boot.ini.

Why will it not boot from the CD CD, mobo or Bios too old? kinda dangerous having XP without a bootable CD.

Cheers Murray P
Murray P (44)
274088 2004-09-20 08:48:00 Can it boot from USB? Pete O'Neil (250)
274089 2004-09-20 08:53:00 you may have to edit the boot.ini to something like this:

Note the "\WINDOWS" after the partition number
Of course the partition number may differ depending on how many you have & which one XP is on

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
45South (4769)
274090 2004-09-20 12:24:00 > Are you sure the screws aren't located behind a
> pop-off removable case front panel?

PC-Company case ++
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438)
1 2