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Unfortunately my system has become unstable when turning on. It says
Operating Sys not found or HD not found or it will boot up to Desktop but I
didn't realize I should have done a backup. Any suggestions?
 
BizBroker said:
Unfortunately my system has become unstable when turning on. It says
Operating Sys not found or HD not found or it will boot up to Desktop but
I
didn't realize I should have done a backup. Any suggestions?
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It's hard to give suggestions because your description of the problem is
confusing. The original question was about creating the ASR floppy but your
reply never mentions that, and you give three different errors. So what
exactly is happening? Are all three occurring at different boot ups? We
can't see your system so you have to be clear in explaining the symptoms.
 
I don't have a ADR Disk for the errors that are occurring at different boot
ups. Since the the errors are different I am under the impression in order to
fixit and retain the files & folders I need an ADR disk.
 
BizBroker said:
I don't have a ADR Disk for the errors that are occurring at different boot
ups. Since the the errors are different I am under the impression in order
to
fixit and retain the files & folders I need an ADR disk.
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An ASR floppy disk is created as part of a wizard using the backup program
in XP Pro, ntbackup. The ASR wizard does a backup of the system drive so
the system can be restored. In the process a floppy disk is created and is
needed to do the restore. It seems to me by what you have said, and again
you are not being very clear, you never created the backup in the first
place. The link I gave you was for creating the needed floppy disk from a
backup that has already been created. This might be necessary if the floppy
is lost or damaged or for some reason the ASR wizard cannot create one along
with the backup. I don't think that's your case is it? You never used the
ASR wizard in the first place, right? If that's the case you can't create
it now.

Please don't post what you think you need, post a clear description of the
problems.

I think what you need is some way to repair the errors you are seeing. So
start from the beginning. Explain what happens during the boot process,
where it stops and what errors are displayed, verbatim. Also give some
history on this problem. When did it start, has the system ever run well?
What is the computer configuration, # of drives, type, how the are
partitioned, drive labels and where is XP installed?

In the mean time you could download a drive diagnostic utility from the
drive manufacturer's web site. That will create a bootable floppy or CD.
Boot from that and run the diagnostics on the drive.

Do you have a full and complete backup of important data that's on the
drive? If not do that first. Here are some options for doing so.

1. Take the drive out of the computer and install it as a slave drive in
another Windows XP or 2000 computer. It should read the drive ok, so you can
copy the data.

2. Create a bootable Bart's PE disk, boot from that, then copy the data to
external USB drive or flash drive.

3. Download a bootable Linux distro called Knoppix. Create a bootable CD
from that, boot from it, and copy the data to USB drive or flash drive, or
if the computer has two CD drives, one of which is a burner, then use the
k3b burning program on the Knoppix CD to burn the data to CD.

4. Take it to a competent computer tech to backup the data.
 
I must say Rock that as one who is not computer literate I do the best I can.
But I always feel that if "us" new what to do why would we come hear and ask.
If we knew what was needed to explain what is going on then we might not be
at this forum. As a salesman, patients always works. I appreciate what you
wrote but to me it is foreign and I want to ask you to be clearer in what all
of these things you say to download. What is their website address etc. In
concluosion I hope you would keep this in mind when dealing with us wo are
not computer literate.
 
BizBroker said:
I must say Rock that as one who is not computer literate I do the best I
can.
But I always feel that if "us" new what to do why would we come hear and
ask.
If we knew what was needed to explain what is going on then we might not
be
at this forum. As a salesman, patients always works. I appreciate what you
wrote but to me it is foreign and I want to ask you to be clearer in what
all
of these things you say to download. What is their website address etc. In
concluosion I hope you would keep this in mind when dealing with us wo are
not computer literate.
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Two of the options I presented for trying to backup the data involve
downloading on another computer and then creating a Bart PE Disk, and/or a
bootable distro of Linux called Knoppix. You could google for those
download locations. Google is good tool. This time I'll give you the links
to it, but I suggest you try a Google search for each to see how it works.
Google for Bart PE and for Knoppix. You'll get the following links

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

http://www.knoppix.net/

There is information on each site on how to create the bootable CD from the
download.

If this looks too complicated, that's ok, just take the system to a
competent computer repair shop and have them backup the data.
 
My laptop does this all the time now (it is about 5 years old). I have found
out that if I unplug it and take the battery out so no power gets to it at
all, then plug it back in and turn it on then it will boot and find the HD.
Not sure why it does this.
 
Don G said:
My laptop does this all the time now (it is about 5 years old). I have
found
out that if I unplug it and take the battery out so no power gets to it at
all, then plug it back in and turn it on then it will boot and find the
HD.
Not sure why it does this.
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I'm not sure why you replied to me. I'm not the one having the problem.
 
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