Laptop not booting after partition and installation of Win..

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Yeah I have problems booting off the floppy and CD drive.
How can I restore the XP bootsector?

I have tried booting the machine with both Winxp cd and a floppy disk,
but nothing.
Something I onloy just noticed is at power on, all the lights flash,
eg, CD drive, PCMCIA, basically all the operation status lights except
the Hard Disk light which makes me think there is something wrong
there.

Thanks for your help so far, any more guidance is welcome.


Pegasus \(MVP\) Wrote:
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>
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> "BAR" BAR@discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
> news:1EF20FF0-5285-48F0-BDA4-44BC636FA4C4@microsoft.com...-
> For a dual boot configuration to work, one must use a 3rd party loader
> or
> else first install Me and then XP.
>
> The installation process of XP accomodates the setup of dual boot.
>
> To install as you did, Me will overwrite XP files and thus render
> the-
> system-
> useless.-
>
> Not quite. WinME will overwrite the WinXP boot sector (which is
> not a file). It is quite easy to restore the WinXP boot sector - there
> is no question about "rendering the system useless".


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jt7037

 

[Jimbo]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

You could try to get into your BIOS setup and change the boot sequence.
Many laptops go to the BIOS setup by pressing <delete> or <F2> or
something during initial power up. The fact that you can't boot to a
floppy indicates something more serious than a messed up boot sector.

Make sure the boot sequence is CD then floppy then hard drive. Or floppy
then CD then hard drive would be OK. If hard drive is first in the
sequence and something is wrong with the HD, nothing will work.

jimbo

jt7037 wrote:
> Yeah I have problems booting off the floppy and CD drive.
> How can I restore the XP bootsector?
>
> I have tried booting the machine with both Winxp cd and a floppy disk,
> but nothing.
> Something I onloy just noticed is at power on, all the lights flash,
> eg, CD drive, PCMCIA, basically all the operation status lights except
> the Hard Disk light which makes me think there is something wrong
> there.
>
> Thanks for your help so far, any more guidance is welcome.
>
>
> Pegasus \(MVP\) Wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>"BAR" BAR@discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
>>news:1EF20FF0-5285-48F0-BDA4-44BC636FA4C4@microsoft.com...-
>>For a dual boot configuration to work, one must use a 3rd party loader
>>or
>>else first install Me and then XP.
>>
>>The installation process of XP accomodates the setup of dual boot.
>>
>>To install as you did, Me will overwrite XP files and thus render
>>the-
>>system-
>>useless.-
>>
>>Not quite. WinME will overwrite the WinXP boot sector (which is
>>not a file). It is quite easy to restore the WinXP boot sector - there
>>is no question about "rendering the system useless".
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

You really have to fix up your hardware first before attempting
to fix your operating system problems. Trying to do it the other
way round is wasting your time.


"jt7037" <jt7037.1f36gy@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
news:jt7037.1f36gy@pcbanter.net...
>
> Yeah I have problems booting off the floppy and CD drive.
> How can I restore the XP bootsector?
>
> I have tried booting the machine with both Winxp cd and a floppy disk,
> but nothing.
> Something I onloy just noticed is at power on, all the lights flash,
> eg, CD drive, PCMCIA, basically all the operation status lights except
> the Hard Disk light which makes me think there is something wrong
> there.
>
> Thanks for your help so far, any more guidance is welcome.
>
>
> Pegasus \(MVP\) Wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "BAR" BAR@discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
> > news:1EF20FF0-5285-48F0-BDA4-44BC636FA4C4@microsoft.com...-
> > For a dual boot configuration to work, one must use a 3rd party loader
> > or
> > else first install Me and then XP.
> >
> > The installation process of XP accomodates the setup of dual boot.
> >
> > To install as you did, Me will overwrite XP files and thus render
> > the-
> > system-
> > useless.-
> >
> > Not quite. WinME will overwrite the WinXP boot sector (which is
> > not a file). It is quite easy to restore the WinXP boot sector - there
> > is no question about "rendering the system useless".
>
>
> --
> jt7037