On start prompted to insert set-up disk in drive A

[AuthorizedUserPF]

Good morning;
I am having problems booting when I start my computer. It gives me a Hard
Drive error message and prompts me to insert a set up disk in drive A.
When I do a set up bbot from the XP floppy boot discs, I can get into the
OS. If I then click to "restart" instead of shutdown, it will restart into
XP but if I shutdown completely and then try to start. it is the same thing.
Prompt for set up drive A.
I have done complete Virus scan and check Hard drive for errors. I show no
virus and no Hard drive problems.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to by pass the set up disk prompt
and boot straight into XP as I was able to do before?

I am running XP Pro and just installed SP2 last night with no problem. I
have 256 RAM PIII 733MH and 20 GB Hard drive with 14 GB free.

Regards
Phil

 

[peter]

Try booting up using the XP CD-ROM and choose to repair. Then choose the
Recovery Console Option...
Choose the number corresponding to your XP version and enter your
Administrator Password (then press enter).

After that you'll see a command prompt...enter the following command:

bootcfg /rebuild" command to fix boot.ini.
FIXBOOT will fix the boot sector on the boot drive,
FIXMBR will fix the master boot record if the NT loader
complains of a missing HAL or unmountable boot volume.



After the process is completed enter the command EXIT to quit (and the
system should auto reboot OK from that point onwards...
peter