John,
I disconnected disk 3 - booted up from CD to make sure that drive had gone.
Then reset BIOS to boot from Hard Disk - I got the same Error LOading OS
:
Can you go in the BIOS and temporarily disable disk 3 and reboot? (It
will most likely be shown as HDD2). Or can you otherwise temporarily
disconnect the drive and try booting the pc and see what happens?
John
jclay wrote:
John
The command return for set system is:
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
boot.ini is in C:\ folder only
NTDETECT.COM is in C:\ folder only
ntldr is in C:\folder only
I found the Disk Management Tool and some info I gave you before was slighty
incorrect:
Info from the Disk Management Tool is as follows:
Hard Disk 1:
C: Partition Basic NTFS Healthy (system) 19.08 GB
Hard Disk 2:
E
F
Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy 5.94 GB
Hard Disk 3:
C
D
Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy (active) 9.31 GB
D
E
Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy 9.75 GB
I hope the above info helps
thank you
:
First set Explorer Folder Options to display hidden files and folders:
http://tinyurl.com/h4o87 Then you cand search for the files again.
Now do the following:
Open a Command Prompt:
Click on: Start | Run and type cmd in the dialogue box and press enter
or click "OK".
At the command prompt type the following command then press <enter>:
set system
What does the command return? (Hint: You can copy and paste the
contents of the command window using the mouse to highlight the text you
want to copy.)
The 3 files mentioned in an earlier post should be on the SystemDrive=
drive. Please report the results of the SET command and the search
results for the files.
John
jclay wrote:
John
several things -
before when you asked me to find boot.ini I serached for this (including in
hidden files) and it was NOT found. Secondly when I put it in the Run box
Windows said it couldnt find it.
I have just searched for NTDETECT.COM and ntldr, again these fies could not
be found.
I have 3 hard disks on my pc - C: (which I formatted and installed XP on) D:
and E: - I think only D: is partitioned but I am not sure.
You obviosly know a lot more about XP than me, where do I find the Disk
Management tool and how do I use it ?
thank you
:
Yes, that's it. The contents of the file appears to be correct but you
didn't tell us how many hard disks and or partitions are in the
computer. If only 1 partition on 1 hard disk then the file is ok.
Go in the Disk Management tool and verify the Active status of the
partition. Ensure that the following (also hidden) files are at C:\
along with the boot.ini file:
NTDETECT.COM
ntldr
John
jclay wrote:
I got this from My Computer/Properties/Advanced/Startup and Recovery
Settings/Edit:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
Is this what you mean ?
:
It's a hidden system file, unhide it, or you should be able to have
Notepad open it by clicking on:
Start | Run
and typing boot.ini in the run box and pressing enter or clicking on
"OK". If not see here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022
When you paste the contents of the file here also tell us how many
drives and partitions you have in the computer.
John
jclay wrote:
I did a search on my C:\ drive for boot.ini - no results where found ?
:
Let's have a look at your boot.ini file and see what it says in there.
John
jclay wrote:
I have recently reformatted my hard disk and re-installed XP Professional.
My BIOS is set to Hard Disk and when I start my pc I get the "Error Loading
OS".
If I set the BIOS to CD Rom and insert the XP disc then the pc boots from
the CD and Windows starts up ok. For the last week I have been using windows
with the CD disc in the pc.
How do I get the pc to boot from the Hard Disk?
