Summary: I have again experienced a similar problem as the one in this thread. I have an HP 6320 laptop that I upgraded to a 125G drive a couple of years ago....
Summary: I thought about doing that, in fact, I've already backed up the files to the small drive, but the XP I have needs to run from a Win OS like 98. So I'd...
Summary: After I put a new motherboard in my pc, it won't boot up w/the old hard drive. I put another drive in and it works. With the old drive, it starts to...
Summary: You have a dual-boot '98/XP system at present that won't boot to XP normally but it will boot to safe-mode? Did this system "ever" boot to XP normally...
Summary: I have a new HD, partitioned it with 8GB primary partition NTFS, and a couple of other partitions. Copied an image of previous HD onto primary partiti...
Summary: Drive C being the boot drive and Drive C being a bootable drive are two different things. How did you format this drive before you tried to put your ...
Summary: I have two Western Digital NTSF formatted IDE HD's both partitioned...the destination disk partition is slightly larger than the source and neithter d...
Summary: Initially, I had Vista installed on Drive C:. Found it too slow, and wanted to go back to XP, So I installed XP on a second hard drive, with no proble...
Summary: Just downloaded the latest updates on Friday as prompted by the auto-update feature. After updates were done, it prompted for a reboot. Not unusual as...
Summary: It is not possible to boot into DOS using a Windows XP startup disk, because DOS isn't there. But, it is still possible to do most of the things you m...
Summary: I've read through the previous postings on this topic, and I still have a problem. I have an older machine, P-II 266/128 mb ram, with a 4 GB HD and a ...
Summary: My windows xp computer won't boot. I get a message that says: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \system32\hal....
Summary: Just the other day I was on the internet and a few programs started to run slowly, so I decided to restart my computer. Now Xp won't boot, I dont kno...
Summary: I was recently running windows XP professional on my Compaq 1900 laptop when my hard drive crashed, so I searched on ebay and bought the exact same mo...
Summary: I have a real problem. XP won't boot up. When I start the computer, the BIOS loads and then the screen goes blank. I tried to boot from the CD, but it...
Summary: Windows XP won't boot! First symptom: corrupt display upon boot before POST. I thought at first this was a hardware problem, so I had my CPU, mobo, an...
Summary: Hello all My brother's laptop refuses to boot after he changed the regional settings. It gives a blue screen with the message "unknown boot_device". H...
Summary: Last week, the hard drive on my laptop suddenly failed (Toshiba 80GB 4200rpm). It began with a blue screen, followed by a no hard drive detected upon ...
Summary: Xp on C: Hard drive, added another hardrive and installed 2k Server H: drive onthe second drive. Found the second drive defective, tried to boot from ...
Summary: I need Help! Ok last time I used my computer was OK then... My windows XP won't boot. I tried using bootdisk and copy boot.ini/ntldr/ntdetect then I f...
Summary: One of the first things you should reach for when troubleshooting a Windows XP boot problem is a Windows startup disk. This floppy disk can come in ha...
Summary: Kay, So I bought a new computer the other day for a friend. It came with a SATA drive, which we had lovel problems installing and sliplining the drive...
Summary: Hello all. Thank you for your time and help in this matter. I have a Dell notebook computer that runs off of Windows XP. Last night, I got a messag...
Summary: I recently build a computer: Athlon xp 2600+ 512MB Ram 80GB HD ATI Radeon 7000 PC Chips M848A Motherboard Well first off the power supply in the case ...
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