My friends computer has recently started booting up and producing the blue
screen of death announcing that it is unable to mount the boot disk (or so i
am informed). How should i deal with this, because in the end it will be me
that has to deal with it!

Thanks

Martin

Martin;
Power off, open the case and reseat the hard drive IDE ribbon cable at
both ends.
If that fails:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315403

Otherwise go to the website of the hard drive manufacturer and
download their hard drive diagnostics.

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"Martin Hopkinson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> My friends computer has recently started booting up and producing
the blue
> screen of death announcing that it is unable to mount the boot disk
(or so i
> am informed). How should i deal with this, because in the end it
will be me
> that has to deal with it!
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin

>-----Original Message-----
>My friends computer has recently started booting up and
producing the blue
>screen of death announcing that it is unable to mount
the boot disk (or so i
>am informed). How should i deal with this, because in
the end it will be me
>that has to deal with it!
>
>Thanks
>
>Martin
>
>If it just started doing this, the easiest way it to sys
the drive. If it is W95a W95b W95c, or W98a or W98b (SE)
or WMe, make a bootable floppy (STartUP DISK) Being
carefule to use the EXACT SAME (OS or Windows Version)

Verify your OS, Goto another PC with the SAME OS and make
StartUp disk or format a floppy. "FORMAT A: /S" Then
copy sys.com to floppy. Sys.com is located in the DOS
folder or Windows\Command folder.

Verify OS both PC's have the Same OS. Take Floppy to PC
with boot issue and boot to A:
At A:\_ Type SYS C: and press enter. This will copy
command.com and system files to non booting PC and you
will see, SYSTEM TRANSFERED. Then Reboot.

PLEASE VERIFY BOTH OS's B4 Sysing the drive. If you
don't veryify and use the wrong OS you could be in more
trouble. Easy way to verify is looking at the size of
the file C:\COMMAND.COM Make sure the size of
command.com is same on both PC's before runnign the SYS
command.

>.
>

"Kevin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>>If it just started doing this, the easiest way it to sys
>the drive. If it is W95a W95b W95c, or W98a or W98b (SE)
>or WMe, make a bootable floppy (STartUP DISK) Being
>carefule to use the EXACT SAME (OS or Windows Version)
>
>Verify your OS, Goto another PC with the SAME OS and make
>StartUp disk or format a floppy. "FORMAT A: /S" Then
>copy sys.com to floppy. Sys.com is located in the DOS
>folder or Windows\Command folder.
>
>Verify OS both PC's have the Same OS. Take Floppy to PC
>with boot issue and boot to A:
>At A:\_ Type SYS C: and press enter. This will copy
>command.com and system files to non booting PC and you
>will see, SYSTEM TRANSFERED. Then Reboot.
>
>PLEASE VERIFY BOTH OS's B4 Sysing the drive. If you
>don't veryify and use the wrong OS you could be in more
>trouble. Easy way to verify is looking at the size of
>the file C:\COMMAND.COM Make sure the size of
>command.com is same on both PC's before runnign the SYS
>command.

This is a Windows XP newsgroup and your suggestion is not applicable
or workable with Windows XP.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
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