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Please help - BOOT ERROR -

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Name: Bailey
Date: July 20, 2000 at 12:32:04 Pacific
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Bailey:

Verifying DMI Pool Data...
BOOT: I/O error reading disk
Please insert another disk
I had win98 and NT4-server.

Anyone could help, please share your knowledge.

Thank You.
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Gary:

You havn't got a floppy disk or cd in the drives have you!
Check your BIOS to see what boot order your drives are in, Should be A: C: SCSI, or something similar.

Could be a Hard disk boot sector fault.
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Bailey:

My boot order is correct "A, C, Scsi"
So, I suspect it may be HD boot sector fault.
I did "Fdisk /MBR" to repair it but with out improvement.

And I lost my Emergency Boot Disk.

What Am I to do now?

Please share your knowledge, Thanks.

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Name: J Reuter
Date: July 20, 2000 at 14:17:48 Pacific
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What did you do before this happened. It would be great to know if this happened just so, or if you did something in your system. I had a similar problem when inverting Primary and secondary controller. While every boot system must be installed on a disk on the primary controller (if there is just one disk). It could be that your parttion is not active. Run fdisk and see
mail me for further help


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Name: anon...
Date: July 20, 2000 at 17:02:24 Pacific
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As J Reuter asks: what did you do to get into this state...

What is you system config? (HD EIDE/SCSI; partitions - as was...? etc.)

Ideas: set your sequence to c: then a: ?

Can you boot from '98 boot-disk (or a DOS 6.22 variety)?

What does Fdisk reveal?

What happens if you run the NT install floppies??? Will it allow a repair/upgrade choice etc???


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