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Guest
do i have to start over by re installing xp
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Pegasus \(MVP\)
do i have to start over by re installing xp
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of your machine.
G
Guest
the computer was built at home as a gift, but the gentleman never left the
disc for the mother board. it was working ok at the week-end then this red
square came up saying (disc boot failer insert system disk) other message
(your hard disk is to fragment you should uninstall)
disc for the mother board. it was working ok at the week-end then this red
square came up saying (disc boot failer insert system disk) other message
(your hard disk is to fragment you should uninstall)
P
Pegasus \(MVP\)
Try this:
- Format a floppy disk on some other WinXP/2000 PC.
Don't do it on a Win9x PC - it won't work.
- Copy these files from the \i386 folder of your WinXP CD to A:\
ntldr
ntdetect.com
- Create a file a:\boot.ini with these lines
L1 [Boot Loader]
L2 Timeout=3
L3 Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
L4 [Operating Systems]
L5 multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
(Remove the line markers L1..L5)
- Boot the machine with this floppy
Report the result in your reply. Quote all messages
you see on the screen VERBATIM. Your previously
quoted error messages were not verbatim by a long
shot, which makes trouble shooting much more difficult.
- Format a floppy disk on some other WinXP/2000 PC.
Don't do it on a Win9x PC - it won't work.
- Copy these files from the \i386 folder of your WinXP CD to A:\
ntldr
ntdetect.com
- Create a file a:\boot.ini with these lines
L1 [Boot Loader]
L2 Timeout=3
L3 Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
L4 [Operating Systems]
L5 multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
(Remove the line markers L1..L5)
- Boot the machine with this floppy
Report the result in your reply. Quote all messages
you see on the screen VERBATIM. Your previously
quoted error messages were not verbatim by a long
shot, which makes trouble shooting much more difficult.