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WIN XP Install Non-System Disk Erro
Name: Nostran Date: July 9, 2003 at 16:16:09 Pacific OS: WIN XP Pro CPU/Ram: Celeron 1.4Ghz 512Mb DDR
Comment:
I have just finished a clean install of Win XP when I had the CD in the drive it worked fine but as soon as I remove it i get the Non-System Disk error message. I have tried to fix this by reinstalling it again, then i tried running fixboot c: from the repair console then doing a installation repair job. Still no joy... Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated
Name: Qvestchun Date: July 9, 2003 at 16:29:05 Pacific
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Are you sure your BIOS is reading your drives correctly? I had an odd problem where my C drive didn't seem to exist when I booted with a win98 floppy even though it was FAT, because it had EZ-BIOS installed on it. WinXP loaded without a hitch, this only happened with bootdisks. Once I removed that everything worked fine, maybe some variation of this is happening to you
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Response Number 2
Name: Nostran Date: July 10, 2003 at 07:16:06 Pacific
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I believe the BIOS is fine although I am not completely sure. When I ran fixmbr it said that the boot record was not standard. So I gather it might be something to do with the HD not the BIOS. Any ideas?
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