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Charles Crume
Hello all;
I have a multi-boot machine with the following primary partitions:
1) DOS v6.20 (528MB FAT 16)
2) XP Home (15GB NTFS -- boot.ini is set to boot from p2 (this
partition))
3) DOS 6.20 (528 MB -- back up copy of p1 -- marked as hidden)
4) DOS 6.20 (528 MB -- back up copy of p1 -- marked as hidden)
5) about 3GB of unused space
6) Win98se (6GB FAT 32 -- this is the partition I ususally use)
7) Win98se 6GB (backup copy of p5 -- marked as hidden)
8) Win98se 6GB (backup copy of p6 -- marked as hidden)
9) small partition for the Ranish boot manager program
I use ranish partition manager (www.ranish.com) to select the boot partition
(1, 2, or 6). Everything has been working quite well for some time now (> 8
months).
I tried to boot XP today and the machine hung at a black screen with a
flashing cursor in the upper left corner.
I can turn the machine off and successfully boot to DOS and Win98se. I
searched google and found some info on using the "Recovery Console" to
replace NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM, and to run FIXBOOT to replace a bad boot
record in the XP partition (the article(s) suggested that something may have
been infected with a virus or become corrupted).
Well, I did this (repeated the process twice more just to ensure I did it
correctly -- I did as fas as I can tell). I also started to run FIXMBR, but
got a warning msg that it might really mess things up and make the other
partitions unusable -- so I canceled it.
The machine still hangs at the black screen and flashing cursor -- there is
no HD activity at all (and I let it sit for about 5 minutes one time to see
if it was just sloooooow).
I can, however, boot to DOS and Win98se A-OK.
Not sure whether I need to re-install XP from the recovery CD's (hate to do
this cause I have a Compaq Presario and they install lots of software that I
don't want, or use, and have to spend quite a bit of time uninstalling it).
Does anyone have a solution, or some ideas on what I can try to resolve
this?
TIA.
Charles...
I have a multi-boot machine with the following primary partitions:
1) DOS v6.20 (528MB FAT 16)
2) XP Home (15GB NTFS -- boot.ini is set to boot from p2 (this
partition))
3) DOS 6.20 (528 MB -- back up copy of p1 -- marked as hidden)
4) DOS 6.20 (528 MB -- back up copy of p1 -- marked as hidden)
5) about 3GB of unused space
6) Win98se (6GB FAT 32 -- this is the partition I ususally use)
7) Win98se 6GB (backup copy of p5 -- marked as hidden)
8) Win98se 6GB (backup copy of p6 -- marked as hidden)
9) small partition for the Ranish boot manager program
I use ranish partition manager (www.ranish.com) to select the boot partition
(1, 2, or 6). Everything has been working quite well for some time now (> 8
months).
I tried to boot XP today and the machine hung at a black screen with a
flashing cursor in the upper left corner.
I can turn the machine off and successfully boot to DOS and Win98se. I
searched google and found some info on using the "Recovery Console" to
replace NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM, and to run FIXBOOT to replace a bad boot
record in the XP partition (the article(s) suggested that something may have
been infected with a virus or become corrupted).
Well, I did this (repeated the process twice more just to ensure I did it
correctly -- I did as fas as I can tell). I also started to run FIXMBR, but
got a warning msg that it might really mess things up and make the other
partitions unusable -- so I canceled it.
The machine still hangs at the black screen and flashing cursor -- there is
no HD activity at all (and I let it sit for about 5 minutes one time to see
if it was just sloooooow).
I can, however, boot to DOS and Win98se A-OK.
Not sure whether I need to re-install XP from the recovery CD's (hate to do
this cause I have a Compaq Presario and they install lots of software that I
don't want, or use, and have to spend quite a bit of time uninstalling it).
Does anyone have a solution, or some ideas on what I can try to resolve
this?
TIA.
Charles...