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steveadams617
Main question: is there anything I could have done software-wise to
kill my CD/DVD-ROM. My laptop CD/DVD has stopped reading.
Current:
I put it a Windows ME boot disk. It finds the drive and boots with the
drivers. Put it a CD. Type CD f: from command prompt. Fine. Type dir
and get abort, retry, etc.
I put in Norton Ghost emergency boot disk. It can see the drive, but
says no disk in it.
I put it Boot-it ng. It can see the drive but can't read it.
I can't boot with any bootable CD's. Bios is set to start with CD 1st.
Light comes on when I put disk in and it spins. It tries repeatedly to
read.
History:
Was working fine today until I decided to use boot-it NG to blow away
an extended partition that contained windows 2000 operating system. I
created a primary partition in it's place and used Norton Ghost to move
an image of the partition onto that newly created primary partition.
Needless to say, it won't boot. I get "couldn't find NTLDR" I'm sure
the boot.ini is all messed up since I re-adjusted things.. I can go
into norton ghost or boot from ME disk and see that all the files are
there in the right place and on the right drive letters. I've been
playing with the MBR, etc. and sliding things around. I finally gave up
and decided to just re-install Windows on that partition until I
realized that the CD won't read.
Could I have done something at such a low system level that I killed
it? Seems almost impossible that the laser could have died at the
precise moment that I was messing around with the system. It would just
be too much of a coincidence.
I've been thinking I should keep trying to alter the boot.ini to see if
I got Windows to boot, if the CD would come back to life. I can't think
of a utility on a floppy I could use to access it, however.
This might be too much for this forum. Is there another newgroup you
might suggest I post my question?
I've been searching for an answer. Closest I found was this:
________________________________________________________
"I have a similar problem with an HP omnibook xp1000s where I deleted
XP home partition (CSmile using PartitionMagic in order to re-install
from scratch. When I loaded the XP bootable installation cd, I got the
message "couldn't find NTLDR". Before going through the PartitionMagic
process, I could boot from CD without a hitch.
I then restored an earlier XP version using DriveImage from diskettes.
I had no trouble booting into that restored installation from hard
disk. Using PartitionMagic I noticed that the first three zones on the
hard disk, from left to right, were as follows :
Empty Space of 7.8MB
Type 84 zone (hidden) occupying 47.1MB
Partition C of my restored XP
Should something be going into that empty space? Should I use FixMBR or
will that destroy the whole boot setup?"
_________________
Steve Adams
kill my CD/DVD-ROM. My laptop CD/DVD has stopped reading.
Current:
I put it a Windows ME boot disk. It finds the drive and boots with the
drivers. Put it a CD. Type CD f: from command prompt. Fine. Type dir
and get abort, retry, etc.
I put in Norton Ghost emergency boot disk. It can see the drive, but
says no disk in it.
I put it Boot-it ng. It can see the drive but can't read it.
I can't boot with any bootable CD's. Bios is set to start with CD 1st.
Light comes on when I put disk in and it spins. It tries repeatedly to
read.
History:
Was working fine today until I decided to use boot-it NG to blow away
an extended partition that contained windows 2000 operating system. I
created a primary partition in it's place and used Norton Ghost to move
an image of the partition onto that newly created primary partition.
Needless to say, it won't boot. I get "couldn't find NTLDR" I'm sure
the boot.ini is all messed up since I re-adjusted things.. I can go
into norton ghost or boot from ME disk and see that all the files are
there in the right place and on the right drive letters. I've been
playing with the MBR, etc. and sliding things around. I finally gave up
and decided to just re-install Windows on that partition until I
realized that the CD won't read.
Could I have done something at such a low system level that I killed
it? Seems almost impossible that the laser could have died at the
precise moment that I was messing around with the system. It would just
be too much of a coincidence.
I've been thinking I should keep trying to alter the boot.ini to see if
I got Windows to boot, if the CD would come back to life. I can't think
of a utility on a floppy I could use to access it, however.
This might be too much for this forum. Is there another newgroup you
might suggest I post my question?
I've been searching for an answer. Closest I found was this:
________________________________________________________
"I have a similar problem with an HP omnibook xp1000s where I deleted
XP home partition (CSmile using PartitionMagic in order to re-install
from scratch. When I loaded the XP bootable installation cd, I got the
message "couldn't find NTLDR". Before going through the PartitionMagic
process, I could boot from CD without a hitch.
I then restored an earlier XP version using DriveImage from diskettes.
I had no trouble booting into that restored installation from hard
disk. Using PartitionMagic I noticed that the first three zones on the
hard disk, from left to right, were as follows :
Empty Space of 7.8MB
Type 84 zone (hidden) occupying 47.1MB
Partition C of my restored XP
Should something be going into that empty space? Should I use FixMBR or
will that destroy the whole boot setup?"
_________________
Steve Adams