Problem resolved through some settings in the bios. However another
problem crop up even before I settle the boot problem. Now, when I
shut down the pc start>turn off >turn off, the pc will shut down but
it will immediately restart and back up to desktop. I dont remember
making changes other than those to solve the boot problem. How can I
stop the pc from rebooting by itself.
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Found the Boot.ini and after that did a fixboot through the
Recovery Console but the problem remains the same. That is it will
not boot if there is no XP in the cd rom drive (irrespective of
the priority boot)........... why .why...thanks
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Bios set to 1st boot as Atapi cd rom, then hdd and also try to set
as hdd, cd rom.- all give the same message. The 3rd boot is
disabled/grayout
Here is the boot.ini details
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating system]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition"[/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Seems strange when I do a search for BOOT.INI file (including
hidden files)- result nothing.
Thanks for your time.
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Christine
How do you know this "when first boot is hdd"? Have you made
changes in the BIOS? The hard drive is normally second or third
in the boot sequence after the floppy and or the CD drive.
Try Start, Run, type msconfig and hit ENTER. Copy the details of
what appears in the boot.ini tab and post the information here.
What was the original OS? How is your Windows XP CD described on
the face of the CD?
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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christine wrote:
The original OS is not win XP. The problem been resolved
because of the failure of the cd rom drive. After changing the
cd rom drive, the installation was able to complete and I was
able to the WU/activate. After that However, discovered that in
order to boot up, the XP cd must be inside the cd rom driver,
otherwise it will
not boot up, even though the first boot is hd.
It will only boot up with the xp inside and not hitting any key
when asked. Why is that the xp cd must be inside even when first
boot is hdd? Any idea to resolve the issue is much appreciated
as it driving us nuts, thanks
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Christine
New Stop Error to me:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms797129.aspx
Why are you trying a new clean installation of XP?
How is your Windows XP CD described on the face of theCD?
Doesn't the error message name the driver?
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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christine wrote:
when I try to do a clean XP installation on my hdd, after
accepting the F8, somewhere along the line I get this error
"DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANELLING_PENDING_OPERATIONS". The
hdd is an old one but I reformat it before the installation.
Any idea what is wrong with it? Thanks
