Summary: from time to time in the past i have found the various windows that i have had have at some point or other said to me cannot find boot.ini or msconfig...
Summary: Ok, I'm going to try to be clear and concise. I have actually have 3 HDD on my comp with partitions list below: C:/ 1st HDD with the Boot files (IO.SY...
Summary: You say you instal all apps on C although XP is on I. Are your apps installed "IN" xp or 98? ie are they XP's apps? If so then formatting your C drive...
Summary: I am in desperate need of some help. I cant get xp to boot. It wont boot into any of the safe modes and keeps returning to a blue screen with the wind...
Summary: don't have liberty of doing it from within XP. Basically I'm trying to make a backup of xp, and the cd won't boot so I need boot files to make cd b...
Summary: What did you have happen? If the bios is booting up the right HDD (the new XP) and the boot.ini file on the new HDD says to boot XP from the new HDD, ...
Summary: a quick way would be to do a repair on the XP install with the XP CD. Boot up with the XP CD, do a boot from CD, and run a repair .. see if that helps...
Summary: Stupid me decided to install Linux on my computer with XP. I used Partition Magic to reformat the drive... Had a few probs with booting up... but soon...
Summary: I installed 2 separate versions of XP on two different hard drives. Both boot and are performing normally. I tried copying the XP Pro to the XP Home...
Summary: Is it possible to make an XP Emergency Boot Disk or use a repair function like 2000 if the boot sector is currupted on the Hard Disk? The most common ...
Summary: XP REPAIR ............................................................................ Boot from the CD or you can insert the CD while at the windows ...
Summary: Hello Ian, You can easily create your own boot menu that will appear when your system starts to boot by adding your own entry to the win xp pro 'boot ...
Summary: Hi FJ, Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure if this is what I need? It does say that the '/copy' command will copy an existing boot entry...for which yo...
Summary: Windows does a silly thing with drives during installation. If it detects a MBR, it will add addtional installations to the MBR so that it supports mu...
Summary: Hi. I have a pc with windows XP home edition installed. So far the system has been running ok and all viruses and or malware had been removed with NOD...
Summary: OK, here is my problem. I have 2 20Gb drives in my computer. Originally I had one, then XP started playing up so I thought I would do a reinstall on a...
Summary: not recommended cause much of your XP registry would be pointing to "D:\Program Files" for instance, better off doing a fresh XP install after you swi...
Summary: Hi, I had similar problems like yours. I run W2K in C: Tried to install XP on another partition on a second disk. My problem was that when I installed...
Summary: Ok I have 2 hard disks with 2 operating systems (XP Pro & 2000 server- dual boot). I have 2 partitions on each with this basic layout. HD1) C:(XP Roo...
Summary: I can't find the boot file that you can edit to select only one OS. Can someone please help me with this. I have 2 selections and only want to use the...
Summary: Ideally you would boot the xp cd and go into recovery console. You can fix the mbr and boot files from there. See if you can get a friend to lend yo...
Summary: I have Norton GHost to do backups between three computers, and I need help making a batch file that renames the backup files that Ghost creates to the...
Summary: Basically I can't get XP to boot, but read on because I don't think this isn't your basic problem. Okay so here's what's happened. I had spyware on my...
Summary: When I try to start my Windows XP, I have been getting the message"Windows didn't start successfully" ~~ It has been suggested that my 'Boot File' m...
Summary: Johnw's suggestion is the best start (if you have another hard drive to play with (it is probobly the quickest way to back up your data)as fixboot may...
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