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| Thread ID: 33300 | 2003-05-13 05:00:00 | windows XP wont boot | robsonde (120) | Press F1 |
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| 143619 | 2003-05-13 05:00:00 | I have been runnig XP-pro for about a year and have had no problems untill now . the setup was a 40Gb drive on the primary IDE as master a 8GB drive on the primary as slave . I removed the 8Gb drive from my system . (it had linux on it) when i booted the system the lilo boot loader went mental . I boot off the XP cdrom and did a fixmbr and a fix boot . the system will boot and run fine if i select "last knowen good config" if i select "normal boot" the system hangs and the XP splash screen . info: athlon 1800+ 256Mb ram soltek 75kav5 board XP pro (service pack 1) only change was to unplug one drive . any help would be nice . |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 143620 | 2003-05-13 05:11:00 | Use a boot disk/floppy and type'' fdisk /mbr '' at the prompt, leave a space between the k and / | Shiloh (2288) | ||
| 143621 | 2003-05-13 05:35:00 | My previous post may not help as it seems it is booting to xp, I had this problem a few weeks ago with it hanging at the splash screen at boot , I selected ''debugging mode'' instead of ''last known good configuration'' and it fixed the problem. or you could use your boot disk and run scandisk or chkdisk. |
Shiloh (2288) | ||
| 143622 | 2003-05-13 06:26:00 | Doesn't XP have a Recovery Console which does repairing of the MBR? If so, I would suggest that rather than any bootable floppy and FDISK /MBR. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 143623 | 2003-05-13 06:28:00 | PS: Next time, before removing a Linux disk which uses LILO for boot management. Do "lilo -u" in your last Linux session. That will restore the MBR which lilo saved when it was installed. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 143624 | 2003-05-13 11:19:00 | I have use the Recovery Console and tryed "fixmbr" and "fixboot" this fixed the lilo problem but window wont boot unless i select "last knowen good config" |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 143625 | 2003-05-13 12:31:00 | fixed it I changed the boot.ini to get a boot log and was hoped to see what was stalling. rebooted and the system came up first time. problem is fixed but i dont quite know how/why........ |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 143626 | 2003-05-13 13:16:00 | ...and thats the scariest thing of all. | jerry_23 (3745) | ||
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