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smackedass
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Hello again,
My Windows XP HE disk doesn't boot. And I need it to.
When I slip the disk into the CD or the DVD drive, and boot the box, all I
get is a hyphen blinking. The HP startup screen appears first, all the
drives are found, the memory, all that other . Then just blinking. The
drives spin, I can hear them .
The blue screen that says "Press any key to boot from CD is curiosusly, and
painfully, missing.
In the BIOS, the CD is specified to boot first.
What I have tried:
-changing the first boot device to be DVD ROM drive
-changing the relationship between the CD and DVD drives from cable
select/cable select to Master/Slave
-downloaded copies of NTDETECT, BOOT.INI, and NTLDR; then burned them onto
the root of the XP disk. Got the files from bootdisk.com.
Additional info:
-I once had a disk, comprised of the same files as are on this one, it used
to work. Lost it.
-I tried another recovery disk from another machine, it was read as a
bootable disk. Didn't push that install any further, it's a '98 disk.
Am stumped. Please help.
Thanks, in advance,
smackedass
has been cross-posted from alt.certification.a-plus
Hello again,
My Windows XP HE disk doesn't boot. And I need it to.
When I slip the disk into the CD or the DVD drive, and boot the box, all I
get is a hyphen blinking. The HP startup screen appears first, all the
drives are found, the memory, all that other . Then just blinking. The
drives spin, I can hear them .
The blue screen that says "Press any key to boot from CD is curiosusly, and
painfully, missing.
In the BIOS, the CD is specified to boot first.
What I have tried:
-changing the first boot device to be DVD ROM drive
-changing the relationship between the CD and DVD drives from cable
select/cable select to Master/Slave
-downloaded copies of NTDETECT, BOOT.INI, and NTLDR; then burned them onto
the root of the XP disk. Got the files from bootdisk.com.
Additional info:
-I once had a disk, comprised of the same files as are on this one, it used
to work. Lost it.
-I tried another recovery disk from another machine, it was read as a
bootable disk. Didn't push that install any further, it's a '98 disk.
Am stumped. Please help.
Thanks, in advance,
smackedass