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boot failure
Name: breyes10 Date: May 23, 2009 at 06:58:05 Pacific OS: Windows XP Product: Compaq / Sr2002x Subcategory: General
Comment:
hi I have a compaq desktop pc sr2002x that I use practically everyday. And one day it just didn't want to work. when I turn it on the screen goes black and it says "boot fail" and asks to insert system disk. The problem is I bought the computer second hand what do I do?
Name: paulsep Date: May 23, 2009 at 11:13:42 Pacific
Reply:
You will have to use a boot disk (MS-Dos or something like that) with an fdisk program, to check, whether the boot partition at the harddisk is still there and set to active.
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Response Number 2
Name: breyes10 Date: May 23, 2009 at 15:30:09 Pacific
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where can i get the boot disk?
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Response Number 3
Name: paulsep Date: May 23, 2009 at 21:02:22 Pacific
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Response Number 4
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: May 24, 2009 at 04:46:57 Pacific
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I would toss it.
But before trying to boot in DOS try checking the BIOS to see if HD FDD CD are recognized.
===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 5
Name: breyes10 Date: May 24, 2009 at 11:38:39 Pacific
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i put the boot disk in and it says boot pass then stays on the black screen doing nothing
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Response Number 6
Name: paulsep Date: May 24, 2009 at 12:07:57 Pacific
Reply:
Did you get nothing on screen or is there a prompt? Something like A:>
If so, it's ok and you can normally use dos commands to check e.g. whether there are partitions on your harddisk and whether one ot the partitions is set to acttive so that it can be used to boot up your system. The command to check for partitions is named FDISK.
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Response Number 7
Name: breyes10 Date: May 24, 2009 at 12:28:25 Pacific
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no there isn't a A:> on the screen it talks about the copyrights of the cd rom of the boot disk I inserted.
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Response Number 8
Name: paulsep Date: May 24, 2009 at 13:04:13 Pacific
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Ah, you downloaded cd boot image? Which have you dowloaded? Maybe I can help you on that.
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Response Number 9
Name: breyes10 Date: May 24, 2009 at 13:57:07 Pacific
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i downloaded the cd rom boot image from active @ bootdisk and its actually a demo it came with a program to create the cd rom bootdisk. I created the dos edition.
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Response Number 10
Name: paulsep Date: May 24, 2009 at 16:05:11 Pacific
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There isn't only one CD image. Better you send the direct link.
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Response Number 11
Name: breyes10 Date: May 24, 2009 at 16:29:08 Pacific
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