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disc booting failure,please insert system dis
Name: darko010101 Date: May 12, 2009 at 03:12:34 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 512 mb Subcategory: General
Comment:
disc booting failure,please insert system disc and press enter what kind of error is this how to resolve it thank`s advance
Name: lurkswithin Date: May 12, 2009 at 04:25:47 Pacific
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A few things can cause this problem. 1) there is a CD or Floppy left in the drive when the system boots in which case it needs to be removed from the drive and then restart your computer. 2) The Master Boot Record or Boot.ini files have become corrupted and the system cannot find a bootable device to start windows...You can boot to the installation CD and choose to go to repair console and repair either one of the options. 3) your harddrive has just died on you and will need to be replaced. Sometimes the files can be retrieved by a recovery application and sometimes they cannot....depends on how bad the drive was damaged.
In either one of these cases...this is perfect example on whay backing up to a different media on a regular basis is so important
Name: darko010101 Date: May 12, 2009 at 04:52:25 Pacific
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well... i`d like to reinstall windows since the file hal.dll has been deleted so, i set up the first boot device to be hdd-1, like usual but the error massage appears whan i press enter, the following shows up: "windows couldn`t start because the file hal.dllis missing or corrupted" what to do now ?
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Name: darko010101 Date: May 12, 2009 at 04:53:04 Pacific
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and while the system was booting the win xp cd was in
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Response Number 4
Name: darko010101 Date: May 12, 2009 at 11:40:50 Pacific
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Name: darko010101
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